GEIGER, WILHELM (1856— ), German scholar, was born in Nuremberg on July 21, 1856. He became professor at Erlangen in 1891, and was professor of Indian and Iranian phi lology at Munich from 1920 to 1924. He edited the Zeitschrift fur Buddhismus and prepared, with E. Kuhn, Grundriss der Iran ischen Philologie (4 vols., 1895-1904). Other works are: Hand buch der Avestasprache (1879) ; Ostiranische Kultur im Altertum (1882) ; Ceylon, Tagebuchblatter and Reiseerinnerungen (1898) ; Litteratur and Sprache der Singhalesen (1900) ; Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa and die Entwicklung der geschichtlichen Ueberlie f erung in Ceylon (edited 1905) ; Pali, Litteratur and Sprache (1916) ; Pali Dhamma (1921) ; Elementarbuch des Sanskrit (3rd ed., 1923) ; and a translation of Nikaya (Eng. trans., 1924).