Erich Frauwallner

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Erich Frauwallner (born December 28, 1898 in Vienna ; † July 5, 1974 there ) was an Austrian Indologist and pioneer in the fields of European Buddhist studies and the history of Indian philosophy .

Career

Frauwallner studied classical philology in Vienna and also dealt with Sanskrit philology . In 1927 he completed his habilitation in "Indian Philology and Classical Studies" and from 1928/29 worked at the University of Vienna in the field of Indology. He wrote important writings on Buddhist logic and epistemology , which were closely based on the source material, and later also on Brahmanic Indian philosophy . The two-volume history of Indian philosophy (1953–1956) can be regarded as his main work .

In 1938, after the dismissal and expulsion of the Jewish professor Bernhard Geiger , Frauwallner received his position for Indian and Iranian philology at the Oriental Institute. He became director of the institute in 1942. After he was called up for military service in the spring of 1943, teaching in Indology was suspended until the end of the war in 1945.

Frauwallner was initially dismissed because of his membership in the NSDAP (from 1932) and his position was initially represented by the German private lecturer Herbert V. Günther , and from 1951 by the Austrian private lecturer Karl Ammer . In the same year, after an assessment of his person by the personnel committee of the university, Frauwallner received the teaching authorization back from the Ministry of Education and was able to work again at the Oriental Institute. In 1955 he was appointed associate professor for Indology. At the same time the "Institute for Indology" was founded, which he chaired. In 1960 he finally became a full professor. In 1970 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Erich Frauwallner, History of Indian Philosophy - I, Shaker 2003. ISBN 3832210768
  • Erich Frauwallner, History of Indian Philosophy - II, Shaker 2003. ISBN 383222226X
  • Frauwallner, E. The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature, 1956
  • Erich Frauwallner, The Philosophy of Buddhism, Akademie Verlag, 2010

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Remarks

  1. On Frauwallner's behavior during National Socialism, cf. Jakob Stuchlik: The Aryan Approach: Erich Frauwallner and National Socialism . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7001-6724-2 ( Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, meeting reports. 797.)
  2. Serious reservations were raised against Stuchlik's statements in the review of the work by Walter Slaje , in: Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques Vol. 64 (2010), pp. 447–463 ( PDF ).
  3. Against this, Stuchlik's replica ( PDF ( Memento of September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )): Asian Studies - Études Asiatiques Vol. 65.1, 28-308 (2011)
  4. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 85.