Ludo Rocher

Ludo Rocher (1926–2016) was an eminent Sanskrit scholar, and the W. Norman Brown Professor Emeritus of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.Rocher received his MA (summa cum laude) in Classics with a minor in Sanskrit in 1948 from the University of Ghent.Rylands, Hindi with John Burton-Page, and Hindu law and the Indian Constitution with Alan Gledhill.[4] At the invitation of Prof. W. Norman Brown, Rocher then moved to Philadelphia, where he was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania.[8] Ludo Rocher and Rosane Rocher were jointly awarded the 2015 prize of the Fondation Colette Caillat of the Institut de France for their "two joint books, The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company (2012) and Founders of Western Indology: August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrooke 1820–1837 (2013), and for their lifelong, signal contributions to Sanskrit studies and the history of Indology".
W. Norman BrownUniversity of PennsylvaniaHemiksemAntwerpBelgiumSanskritUniversity of GhentJuris DoctorHabilitationUniversity of BrusselsAmerican Oriental SocietyAmerican Philosophical SocietyRoyal Academy of Overseas SciencesAsiatic SocietyDharmaśāstraHindu LawRosane RocherColette CaillatInstitut de FranceFestschriftRosane D. RocherPatrick OlivelleRichard W. LariviereXinru Liu