Bernhard Koelver

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Bernhard Kölver (born April 2, 1938 in Cologne ; † November 27, 2001 in Leipzig ) was a German Indologist and most recently professor at the University of Leipzig .

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After attending school in Wertheim , Gummersbach and Fort Myers (Florida), Bernhard Kölver studied linguistics , English , German and Indology at the universities of Kiel , Glasgow , Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main from 1956 . Doctorate in 1965 at the University of Frankfurt / M . After working as a research assistant at the university there and a one-year library traineeship at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Kölver became a research assistant at the Institute for Indology at the University of Cologne in 1967 and completed his habilitation there in 1969. From 1970 to 1972, Kölver stayed and worked in Kathmandu there on behalf of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft and financed by the German Research Foundation as part of the “Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP)” to secure and microfilm Nepalese manuscripts and other important sources. Since then he has devoted himself very intensively to Nepal research , especially the cultural and religious history of the Kathmandu Valley.

From 1972 to 1976 Kölver then worked as a lecturer or adjunct professor for Indology at the University of Cologne . In 1976 he was appointed to the Chair of Indology at the University of Kiel . From 1987 to 1988 he was visiting professor at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu; for the years 1991–1992 he received a research grant at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. In 1993 he was appointed to the professorship for Indology at the University of Leipzig , which he held until his early retirement in 2001.

In 1995 Kölver became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . King Birendra of Nepal awarded him the "Triśaktipaṭṭa-bhūṣaṇa".

Works

  • The use of the secondary cases in Tocharian. Dissertation, Frankfurt / M. 1965.
  • Tuḷu texts. With glossary Dravidian tales from the south of India. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969.
  • (as ed.): Hermann Jacobi: Small writings. two volumes, Steiner, Wiesbaden 1970 ( Glasenapp Foundation , volumes 4/1 and 4/2).
  • Text-critical and philological research on the Rājataraṅgiṇi of the Kalhaṇa. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1971 (Directory of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany, Suppl. 12) (Habilitation thesis).
  • Two unrecognized derivatives of the root vap-. In: Munich Studies in Linguistics. Volume 30, 1972, pp. 111-127.
  • A Central Indian idiom. In: Studies in Indology and Iranian Studies. Volume 1, 1975, pp. 49-62.
  • (together with Ulrike Kölver): On Newari noun inflection. In: Central Asian Studies. Volume 9, 1975, pp. 87-117.
  • (with Niels Gutschow): Ordered space concepts and functions in a town of Nepal. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1975 (Publications of the Nepal Research Center, Volume 1), ISBN 3-515-02077-2 .
  • A Ritual Map from Nepal. The Women of the Therīgāthā. In: Herbert Franke (Ed.): Folia rara. Wolfgang Voigt LXV. diem natalem celebranti from amicis et catalogorum codicum orientalium conscribendorum collegis dedicata. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976 (Directory of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany, Suppl. 19), pp. 68–80, ISBN 3-515-02166-3 .
  • Polished prefixes in Old Indian. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976 (Treatises for the Customer of the Orient, Volume 42.3), ISBN 3-515-02357-7 .
  • Ai. vaksas and related. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. Volume 127, 1977, pp. 344-368.
  • (together with Ulrike Kölver): Classical Newari verbal morphology. In: Central Asian Studies. Volume 12, 1978, pp. 273-316.
  • Kautalyas Pindakara, reconsidered. In: Dieter Conrad (Ed.): Indology and law. Studies in honor of J. Duncan M. Derrett. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982 (Contributions to South Asian Studies, Volume 77), pp. 168-184, ISBN 3-515-03748-9 .
  • Kauṭalya's city as a commercial center. The term puṭabhedana-. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. Volume 135, 1985, pp. 299-311.
  • Stages in the Evolution of a World Picture. In: Nvmen. Volume 32, 1985, pp. 131-168.
  • Documents from the Rudravarṇa-Mahāvihāra, Pāṭan. 1. Sales and mortgages. VGH-Wissenschaftsverlag, Sankt Augustin 1985 (Nepalica, Volume 1), ISBN 3-88280-023-2 .
  • Two Nepalese documents on debt bondage (Documents from Nepal 4th). In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. Volume 136, 1986, pp. 434-449.
  • (as ed.): Forms of cultural change and other contributions to the exploration of the Himālaya. Colloquium focusing on Nepal, Heidelberg, February 1st - 4th, 1984. VGH-Wissenschaftsverlag, Sankt Augustin 1986 (Nepalica, Volume 2), ISBN 3-88280-027-5 .
  • (together with Niels Gutschow / Ishwaranand Shresthacarya): Newar towns and buildings. To ill. dictionary Newārī - Engl. VGH-Wissenschaftsverlag, Sankt Augustin 1987 (Nepalica, Volume 3), ISBN 3-88280-028-3 .
  • On the early history of the Rasa doctrine. In: Berlin Indological Studies. Volume 6, 1991, pp. 21-47.
  • (as ed.): Aspects of Nepalese traditions. Proceedings of a seminar held under the auspices of Tribhuvan University Research Division and the German Research Council, March 1990. Steiner, Stuttgart 1992 (Publications of the Nepal Research Center, Volume 19), ISBN 3-515-06129-0 .
  • Re-building a stūpa. Architectural drawings of the Svayaṃbhūnāth. VGH-Wissenschaftsverlag, Sankt Augustin 1992 (Nepalica, Volume 5), ISBN 3-88280-042-9 .
  • (with Atul Kumar Agarwala): Some Forged Copper-Plate Grants from Rajasthan. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. Volume 142, 1992, pp. 299-320.
  • Ritual and historical space. To the Indian understanding of history. Historisches Kolleg Foundation, Munich 1993 (Writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Lectures, Volume 35).
  • Constructing pagodas according to traditional Nepalese drawings. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996 (Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 74.4), ISBN 3-05-002882-3 .
  • (as ed.): Law, State and Administration in Classical India. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997 (Writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Colloquia, Volume 30), ISBN 3-486-56193-6 .
  • Disintegration of creation and order: India. In: Adam Jones (Ed.): End of the world. Contributions to cultural and religious studies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 183-200, ISBN 3-447-04125-0 .
  • The King: Lord of everything. In: Franz-Reiner Erkens (Ed.): The sacrality of rule. Legitimation of power in the change of times and spaces. Fifteen interdisciplinary contributions to a worldwide and epoch-spanning phenomenon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, pp. 181–186, ISBN 3-05-003660-5 .
  • The worldview of the Hindus. Reimer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-496-02738-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Kölver, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German indologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2001
Place of death Leipzig