Emil Schlagintweit

Emil Schlagintweit (born July 7, 1835 in Munich , † October 20, 1904 in Zweibrücken ) was a German Tibetologist , linguist , orientalist and lawyer .

Life

Emil Schlagintweit was the youngest of the five sons - Hermann , Adolf , Eduard , Robert and Emil - of the ophthalmologist Joseph Schlagintweit (1791-1854) and his first wife Rosalie Seidl (1805-1839). He was particularly interested in Buddhism in Tibet .

Emil graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1853 .

In 1863 he received his doctorate in law and wrote a fundamental work on Buddhism in Tibet ( Buddhism in Tibet , 1863). In 1864 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Works

The Divine Judgments of the Indians: Speech delivered at the public meeting of the Konigl. Academy of Sciences on March 28, 1866 (1866) . Kessinger Pub Co, 2010, ISBN 9781161097658 .
The Kings of Tibet (1866) . Kessinger Pub Co, 2009, ISBN 9781120430076 .
The biography of Padmasambhava the founder of Lamaism 747 AD. Fabri-Verlag, Ulm 1990, ISBN 3980219925 .
India in words and pictures. A description of the Indian Empire . 2 volumes. Leipzig 1880–1881 (digitized: Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
Buddhism in Tibet by Emil Schlagintweit (1863).

literature

Helmut Mayr: Schlagintweit, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 24 f. ( Digitized version ).
Emil Schlagintweit: Schlagintweit . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 336-348. (with an addition about Emil Schlagintweit at the end of the family article)

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Schlagintweit - Sources and full texts

Virtual library for South Asia : Emil Schlagintweit

Individual evidence

^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 56.

personal data
SURNAME	Schlagintweit, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Tibetologist, linguist, orientalist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1904
Place of death	Zweibrücken

[1] Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 56.