Richard Gombrich

Richard Gombrich
Born	(1937-07-17) 17 July 1937 (age 86)
Nationality	British
Spouses	Dorothea Amanda Friedrich ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1984)​ Sanjukta Gupta ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	2, including Carl Gombrich
Parents	Ernst Gombrich (father) Ilse Gombrich (mother)
Academic background
Education	St Paul's School, London Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., D.Phil.) Harvard University (M.A.)
Thesis	Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism in Its Relation to the Pali Canon (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Charles Zaehner
Academic work
Discipline	Indologist
Institutions	University of Oxford
Main interests	Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhism

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Richard Francis Gombrich (/ˈɡɒmbrɪtʃ/; born 17 July 1937) is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a past president of the Pali Text Society (1994–2002) and general editor emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library.