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Roeth : Rudolf von Röth (1821-95), educated at Tübingen under Heinrich Ewald: studied at Paris under Burnouf: worked on Vedic & Zend Avestan Mss in England: published treatises on the Vedas at Tübingen 1846: with Böhtlingk created a Vedic Sanskrit Dictionary for the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg 1855-75: founded Vedic philology: edited Atharva Veda: catalogued Sanskrit Mss in Univ. Library of Tübingen 1865: wrote in Orientalist journals on Vedas, Indian Medicine, Avesta & Religions. With other Orientalists compiled the 7-vol Sanskrit-German Thesaurus. [Buckland’s Dict.; s/a European Enlightenment]