Edward Conze

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Edward Conze (* 18th March 1904 in Forest Hill , London Borough of Lewisham ; † 24. September 1979 in Yeovil , Somerset ) was a philologist and Buddhism watchers and one of the first Western scientists intensively with the Mahayana - Buddhism have dealt.

Life

Conze was born in London as the child of German diplomats, which also gave him British citizenship.

Conze studied philosophy , psychology and indology in Germany at the universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, Kiel, Cologne and Hamburg . In 1928 he did his doctorate with Max Scheler (title of the dissertation: The concept of metaphysics with Franciscus Suarez, SJ ). During his time in Heidelberg, Conze first came into contact with Buddhism as a Marxist with Max Walleser (1874–1954).

In 1933 Conze emigrated to England because of his British citizenship, where he came into contact with Buddhism again through his acquaintance with Har Dayal and the writings of DT Suzuki . In 1946, Conze began translating the Heart Sutra for many years in the field of Prajnaparamita literature. Up to Conze, only very few parts of it had been translated into Western languages (by IJ Schmidt and Eugène Burnouf, among others ).

Edward Conze felt himself to be a Buddhist, but he refused to visit the Buddhist cultures in Asia and limited himself to researching classical texts. Volker Zotz stated: "He was aware that his ideals could hardly stand up to the reality of those countries in which one officially professed them."

Works (selection)

  • 1932: The principle of contradiction. On the theory of dialectical materialism . (Hamburg 1932; new edition with a historical sketch of Joachim Schumacher's work Conzes, Frankfurt 1976, ISBN 3-8015-0137-X )
  • 1951: Buddhism. Its Essence and Development . (London 1951)
    • dt .: Buddhism. Essence and development . 10th edition Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1995, ISBN 3-17-013505-8 , ( Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher vol. 5)
  • 1957: In the sign of the Buddha . Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1957, ( Fischer-Bücherei 144)
  • 1960: The Prajñāpāramitā Literature . (The Hague 1960, revised and revised Tōkyō 1978)
  • 1962: Buddhist Thought in India. Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy . (London 1962)
    • dt .: Buddhist thinking. Three phases of Buddhist philosophy in India . 2nd edition Suhrkamp (st 1772), Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-38272-1 , (Conzes main work in the post-war period )
  • 1967: Thirty Years of Buddhist Studies . (Oxford 1967)
  • 1975: Further Buddhist Studies . (Oxford 1975, ISBN 0-85181-009-8 )
  • 2005: A Brief History of Buddhism . Insel (it 3090), Frankfurt am Main et al. 2005, ISBN 3-458-34790-9

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ Volker Zotz: On the blissful islands. Buddhism in German culture. Berlin 2000, p. 170 ( ISBN 3-89620-151-4 )
personal data
SURNAME Conze, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English philologist and Buddhist scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest Hill , London Borough of Lewisham
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1979
Place of death Yeovil , Somerset