Hermann Oldenberg

Hermann Oldenberg (1854 - 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908). His 1881 study on Buddhism popularized Buddhism and have remained continuously in print since their first publication. With T. W. Rhys Davids, he edited and translated into English three volumes of Theravada Vinaya texts, two volumes of the (Vedic) Griya sutras and two volumes of Vedic hymns on his own account, in the monumental Sacred Books of the East series by Max Müller.