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Adlof Kaegi (1849 - 1923) was a Swiss India scholar and classicist. He studied ancient languages and Indian studies, taking a focus of its work on the study of Greek and Sanskrit thought. Among his academic teachers were Rudolf von Roth and Karl Geldner.
"Rig Veda is permeated by a lively sympathy and love of nature." He adds:
"We have, in the Rig Veda, a literature which well deserves, at least in extracts, to be known to every student and lover of antiquity. The chief importance of the Vedas is not, indeed, found in the history of literature, but it lies elsewhere. It lies in the extraordinary fullness of disclosures, which this unique book gives to the student of philosophy and the history of civilization.
In this regard, no other literature can be compared with it, and though the aesthetic value of this relic of long-vanished time has sometimes been exaggerated, yet its historical importance, its value for mankind cannot be easily overrated....It best displays the first development of intellectual activities of our race."
(source: Hinduism: Triumphs and Tribulations - By S K Kulkarni p. 18).
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