!!!Sprenger, Aloys

b. Nassereith, Tirol, Sept. 3, 1813, 
d. Heidelberg, Germany, Dec. 19, 1893, physician and orientalist. 
Studied with J. von  Hammer-Purgstall, then in Britain and the 
Netherlands. Lived in India from 1843, where he was instrumental in 
the preservation of Urdu (now the national language of Pakistan) and 
the cultural heritage of Islam. From 1858 University Professor of 
Oriental languages at Berne, Switzerland.

!Literature
N. Mantl, A. Sprenger, 1993; Austrian Scholarship in 
Pakistan: A Symposium Dedicated to the Memory of A. Sprenger, 
1996.



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