Gustav Solomon Oppert

Gustav Solomon Oppert (30 July 1836 – 1 March 1908) was a German Indologist and Sanskritist. He was a professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Presidency College, Madras, a Telugu translator to government, and a curator in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library and Research Centre. He was a professor in Madras from 1872 to 1893. He was also editor of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science from 1878 to 1882. After traveling in north India from 1893 to 1894, he returned to Europe in 1894.

Early life Oppert was born in Hamburg to Eduard (born Oppenheime, 1792-1874r) and Henriette née Gans (1800-1875) and counted Julius Oppert and Ernst Oppert among his eleven siblings.

Orientalist In 1872, Oppert was appointed professor of Sanskrit at the Presidency College in Madras. He stayed in that post until 1893, when he left to conduct a tour of north India, China, Japan and the United States before returning to Berlin to become privat-docent in Dravidian languages at the university. when he was working at Presidency College. It was published by Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons in 1923.

Death Oppert, who was unmarried and childless, died in Berlin on 1 March 1908. He was buried there at the Weissensee Jewish cemetery.