Franz Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) is a Baltic German Tibetologist. There is quite a good entry on him in the Wikipedia (s.v.).
Two of the most important contributions in the field of Tibetology seem to be (a) his German translation of Tāranātha’s rGya gar chos ’byung and (b) his work on Tibetan plural particles.
(a) Schiefner 1869 • Franz Anton Schiefner, Tāranātha’s Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien. Aus dem Tibetischen übersetzt von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg: Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1869.
(b) Schiefner 1877 • Franz Anton Schiefner, “Über Pluralbezeichnungen im Tibetischen.” (Lu le 20 septembre 1877). St. Petersburg: Academie imp. des sciences 1877 (17 pages).
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