Bernhard Breloer

Bernhard Breloer (born November 8, 1894 in Herne , † April 20, 1947 in Tbilisi ) was a German Indologist and legal scholar .

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Bernhard Breloer was the son of a mill owner in Recklinghausen. He studied Indology with Hermann Jacobi and Willibald Kirfel in Bonn and with Wilhelm Geiger in Munich , as well as classical philology and musicology . In 1921 he received his doctorate in philology. He then worked in Berlin with Josef Partsch in the field of Indian law; in 1927 he received his doctorate again in Bonn, this time as a doctor of law . In the same year a habilitation for Indology followed in Berlin. In 1935 he took over the chair for Indian philology there, succeeding Heinrich Lüders .

In his philological dissertation, he showed the pentatonic foundations of Indian music. As part of his legal studies, he dealt with issues of real estate and financial and economic management in ancient India, for example in his work on Kautalya .

Breloer was an active supporter of National Socialism and, in his function as dean of the faculty in Berlin, also put pressure on colleagues and students.

In 1939 Breloer, who had already fought in World War I, went into the field as an officer, which ended his academic career. He died in 1947 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union as a result of malnutrition.

literature

Hans Losch: Breloer, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 580 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Bernhard Breloer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Hans Losch: Breloer, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 580 ( digitized version ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c The Indology in Berlin from 1821–1945. Former Institute for the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin , archived from the original on January 26, 2012 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . . In particular section 6. Bernhard Breloer (1935–1939). Archived from the original on October 21, 2007 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . . The texts there follow Ludwig Alsdorf : Die Indologie in Berlin from 1821-1945 . In: H. Leussink, E. Neumann, G. Kotowski (eds.): Studium Berolinense. Essays and contributions to problems of science and the history of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Berlin 1960, p. 567-580 (commemorative publication of the West German Rectors' Conference and the Free University of Berlin on the 150th anniversary of the founding year of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin). Also in Albrecht Wezler (ed.): Ludwig Alsdorf . Small fonts . Franz Steiner Verlag , Wiesbaden 1974, p. 723-736 .

personal data
SURNAME	Breloer, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Breloer, Bernadus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German indologist and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herne
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 1947
Place of death	Tbilisi

[ndb-1] A ^b Hans Losch: Breloer, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 580 ( digitized version ).

[alsdorf-2] The Indology in Berlin from 1821–1945. Former Institute for the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin , archived from the original on January 26, 2012 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . . In particular section 6. Bernhard Breloer (1935–1939). Archived from the original on October 21, 2007 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . . The texts there follow Ludwig Alsdorf : Die Indologie in Berlin from 1821-1945 . In: H. Leussink, E. Neumann, G. Kotowski (eds.): Studium Berolinense. Essays and contributions to problems of science and the history of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Berlin 1960, p. 567-580 (commemorative publication of the West German Rectors' Conference and the Free University of Berlin on the 150th anniversary of the founding year of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin). Also in Albrecht Wezler (ed.): Ludwig Alsdorf . Small fonts . Franz Steiner Verlag , Wiesbaden 1974, p. 723-736 .