Emil Abegg

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Emil Abegg (born January 11, 1885 in Küsnacht ; † February 12, 1962 in Zurich , legal resident in Zurich) was a Swiss Indologist .

Life

Emil Abegg was born as the only son of the businessman Emil Abegg senior and Fanny Guggenbühl. After training as a teacher at the seminar in Küsnacht , he studied German , Sanskrit , psychology , Persian and Arabic at the universities of Zurich from 1904 to 1908 and Leipzig from 1908 to 1909 . In 1909 Abegg did his doctorate at the University of Zurich under Albert Bachmann with an investigation into the dialect of Ursern (printed in 1911) and was - as the successor to Johann Ulrich Hubschmied and predecessor of Werner Hodler - from 1909 to 1912 editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon . From 1913 he worked as a German teacher at the Küsnacht teacher training college for four years .

In 1919 he qualified as a professor for Indian Philology and General Linguistics with a work published in 1921 on the Sanskrit text The Pretakalpa of Garuda-Purāna, which deals with the cult of the dead . From 1928 to 1955 he taught as adjunct professor at the University of Zurich.

Emil Abegg was a Reformed denomination and in 1915 married Anna Elise, daughter of the locksmith Albert Benz and widow of Jakob Keller.

Act

Emil Abegg did research in the areas of Indian philosophy and the history of religion . In addition, he was co-editor of the journal Asian Studies .

Publications

  • The dialect of Urseren. Huber, Frauenfeld [1911] (Contributions to Swiss German Grammar IV).
  • The pretakalpa of the Garuda-Purāna. Association of scientific. Publisher, Berlin 1921, 2nd edition by de Gruyter, Berlin 1956.
  • Faith in the Messiah in India and Iran. de Gruyter, Berlin 1928.
  • The India Collection of the University of Zurich. Beer, Zurich 1935.
  • Indian psychology. Rascher, Zurich 1945.

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SURNAME Abegg, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss indologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Küsnacht
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1962
Place of death Zurich