Claus Vogel

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Claus Vogel (born July 6, 1933 in Saarbrücken ; † August 16, 2012 there ) was a German Indologist and Tibetologist .

Life

Claus Vogel studied Classical Philology , Philosophy , Indology and Tibetology at the University of Marburg , where Hellfried Dahlmann , Klaus Reich and Johannes Nobel were among his teachers; In 1956 he received his doctorate there under Friedrich Müller with a thesis on the Hippocratic four-juice theory . After a two-year stay in India as a scholarship holder of the Indian central government at Deccan College in Pune , he became a research assistant in 1959 at the then Indian-East Asian seminar at the University of Marburg. After completing his habilitation in 1964 with Wilhelm Rau on the Tibetan version of Vagbhatas Ashtanga Hridaya , he taught there initially as a private lecturer , then from 1967 as an unscheduled professor , from 1971 as a regular professor .

In 1976 Vogel was appointed full professor at the Department of Indology at the University of Bonn , which he headed until his retirement in 1998. From 1971 he was also a lecturer and from 1989 he was an honorary professor for Tibetology at the University of Göttingen .

Vogel's areas of work were the philology and source studies of classical Sanskrit literature and its Tibetan reception, Indian lexicography and chronology, and the history of Indian medicine .

Vogel was a member of the German Oriental Society (since 1960), the Royal Asiatic Society in London (since 1964) and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (since 1991). From 1988 until his death he headed the board of the Helmuth von Glasenapp Foundation in Wiesbaden .

Michael Hahn is one of Vogel's students .

Fonts (selection)

Source editions and monographs
  • On the origin of the Hippocratic four-juice theory. Marburg 1956.
  • Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasamhitā. The first five chapters of its Tibetan version. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1965. (Treatises for the customer of the Orient, 37.2).
  • Surupa's Kamasastra. An erotic treatise in the Tibetan Tanjur. Societas Orientalis Fennica, Helsinki 1965. (Studia Orientalia, 30.3).
  • The teachings of the six heretics, according to the Pravrajyāvastu of the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. With an appendix containing an English translation of the pertinent sections in the Chinese Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1970. (Treatises for the customer of the Orient, 39.4).
  • Śrīdharasenas Viśvalocana. A Jain dictionary of Sanskrit in the Lamaist canon. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976. (News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-historical class, 1976.8).
  • Thon-mi Sabhota's mission to India and Srong-bstan sgam-po's legislation, being the tenth chapter of bSod-nams rgyal-mthsan's rGyal-rabs gsal-bai me-long. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981. (News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-historical class, 1981.1).
  • Harsakirti's Anekarthanamamala. A homonymic dictionary of Sanskrit. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981. (News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-historical class, 1981.6).
  • Mīramīrāsutas Asālatiprakāśa. A synonymous dictionary of Sanskrit from the mid-17th century. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1993, ISBN 3-531-07321-4 . (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, G 321).
  • To build up ancient Indian Sanskrit dictionaries from the pre-classical period. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-07341-9 . (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, G 341).
  • The beginnings of the western study of ancient Indian lexicography. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-531-07360-5 . (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, G 360).
  • Indian Lexicography . Revised edition, posthumously edited. by Jürgen Hanneder / Martin Straube , Verlag P. Kirchheim, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-87410-145-5 . (Indologica Marpurgensia, Volume 6).
Articles and contributions to compilations
Editorships
  • Jñānamuktāvalī. Commemoration volume in honor of Johannes Nobel. International Academy of Indian Culture, New Delhi 1959. (Sarasvati-Vihara series, 38).
  • Theodor Zachariae: Opera minora on Indian word research, on the history of Indian literature and culture, on the history of Sanskrit philology. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-02216-3 . (Glasenapp Foundation, 12).

literature

  • Peter Wyzlic: Publications of Claus Vogel. In: Dragomir Dimitrov, Michael Hahn , Roland Steiner (eds.): Bauddhasāhityastabakāvalī. Essays and Studies on Buddhist Sanskrit Literature. Indica et Tibetica, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-923776-36-8 , pp. IX-XXIV. (Indica et Tibetica, 36).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief history of the Department of Indology and Tibetology at the Philipps University of Marburg on the website of the seminar (by Dragomir Dimitrov; English) (accessed on June 24, 2009).
  2. ^ History of Indology at the University of Bonn on the website of the Indology department of the Institute for Oriental and Ancient Studies (accessed on June 24, 2009).
  3. ↑ The history of the subjects of Indology and Tibetology at the University of Göttingen on the website of the seminar (accessed on June 24, 2009).

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personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist and Tibetologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2012
Place of death Saarbrücken