Else Lüders (Indologist)
Else Lüders , b. Peipers (* 1880 in Göttingen ; † March 13, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German Indologist .
Career
Her father David Peipers (1838–1912) was a philosophy professor who worked in Göttingen. In 1900 she married the Indologist Heinrich Lüders and studied Sanskrit under him . She later assisted her husband in the preparation of a critical edition of the Mahabharata, and from 1909 she devoted herself to deciphering numerous Sanskrit texts. In 1919 she was the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock . In 1922 she published the Buddhist fairy tales , a collection of 70 Jataka stories. In 1930 her book Under Indian Sun came outin which she describes a trip with her husband to India and Ceylon. Her husband died in 1943 and she looked after his literary legacy by continuing the work he had started on the Turfan manuscripts. Else Lüders died in Berlin during the last weeks of the Second World War.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rostock Studies on University History , Vol. 9, Women's Studies in Rostock: Reports from and about female academics, Rostock 2010, p. 33 (online edition)
- ↑ Rostock Studies on University History, Vol. 16, Women in Science, Rostock 2011, p. 200 (online edition)
literature
- Walther Schubring : Else Lüders , In: ZDMG, Volume 99 (1945–49) ULB Halle
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lüders, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin |