Editing Franz Bopp (section)

==Early life==
Bopp was born in [[Mainz]], but the political disarray in the [[Republic of Mainz]] caused his parents' move to [[Aschaffenburg]], the second seat of the [[Archbishop of Mainz]]. There he received a liberal education at the Lyceum and [[Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann]] drew his attention to the languages and literature of the East. (Windischmann, along with [[Georg Friedrich Creuzer]], [[Joseph Görres]], and the brothers [[Friedrich Schlegel|Schlegel]], expressed great enthusiasm for Indian wisdom and philosophy.) Moreover, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel's book, ''Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier'' (''On the Speech and Wisdom of the Indians'', Heidelberg, 1808), had just begun to exert a powerful influence on the minds of German philosophers and historians, and stimulated Bopp's interest in the [[sacred language]] of the [[Hindu]]s.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=240}}