Bernhard Geiger

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Bernhard Geiger (born April 30, 1881 in Bielitz , Austria-Hungary ; died July 5, 1964 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American Indologist and Iranist.

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Geiger first began studying Hebrew studies , which he supplemented at the suggestion of his teacher Leopold von Schroeder with Iranian and Sanskrit at the University of Vienna , the University of Bonn , the University of Prague , the University of Göttingen and the University of Heidelberg . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1903 .

In 1909 he completed his habilitation at the Göttingen University, where Franz Kielhorn was his teacher, with a study of Patañjali's work Mahābhāṣya. He then worked as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna until 1918 . In 1919 he became an associate professor for Indology and Iranian Studies.

The future theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar was among Geiger's students in Vienna from 1924 to 1926 .

After Austria was annexed to Germany in 1938, Geiger was dismissed because of his Jewish roots at the instigation of his colleague Erich Frauwallner , who was a National Socialist , and had to emigrate to the USA .

From 1938 to 1951 Geiger worked as a professor at the Tibetian-Iranian Institute in New York and then as a professor at Columbia University . He was best known for his research on the pre-Islamic languages ​​and literatures of Iran . For example, Geiger researched the central Iranian inscriptions on the synagogue of Dura Europos .

Works

  • Indian music of the Vedic and Classical times. Study on the history of recitation. Vienna 1912 (with Erwin Felber)
  • The Amesa Spentas - their essence and their original meaning. From the meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna - Philosophical-historical class - Volume 176 - 7th treatise - presented at the meeting on June 10, 1914. Vienna 1916
  • To the post office of the Persians. Vienna 1916

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 3, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-11094-655-0 , p. 719
  2. ^ Paul Silas Peterson: The Early Hans Urs von Balthasar: Historical Contexts and Intellectual Formation. Berlin, Munich, Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11037-604-3 , p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1964
Place of death New York City