Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy

Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy (born August 30 [September 11, New Style], 1866, Kielce, Russian Poland—died March 18, 1942, Borovoye Akmolinskoy oblast, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. [now in Kazakhstan]) was a Western authority on Buddhist philosophy, whose most important work was the influential Buddhist Logic, 2 vol. (1930–32). Educated in comparative linguistics, Sanskrit literature, and Indian philosophy, Shcherbatskoy spoke fluently and wrote with ease in six European languages. He also possessed a mastery of Sanskrit that won him the...