Ernst Leumann

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Ernst Leumann (born April 11, 1859 in Berg , Switzerland ; † April 24, 1931 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Swiss Jainologist , a pioneer in the study of Jainism and the languages ​​of East Turkestan, whose work is still recognized today.

Career

Ernst Leumann studied linguistics in Zurich and Geneva and Sanskrit in Leipzig and Berlin . The doctorate took place in 1881 with the work "Etymological dictionary of the Sanskrit language" at the University of Strasbourg .

From 1882 to 1884 Leumann worked on the Sanskrit-English Dictionary in Oxford . In 1884 he worked as a cantonal school teacher in Frauenfeld . From 1884 he worked as a professor of Sanskrit at the University of Strasbourg , where he also served as dean from 1909 to 1910 . Here he participated in the Spahn case . After Strasbourg had become French again after the First World War, he became an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg in 1919 .

Publications

author
  • Ernst Lehmann: Relations of Jain literature to other Indian literary circles . Ed .: EJ Brill . Leiden 1885. LCCN ltf91-052809  
  • Ernst Lehmann: Overview of the Āvaśyaka literature glossary . 1934.
  • Ernst Leumann: The Aupapâtika Sûtra, first Upânga of the Jaina: 1st part - introduction, text and glossary . Hansebooks, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7433-6041-9 (Original title: Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, first Upânga of the Jaina: Part 1 - Introduction, text and glossary . 1883.).
  • Ernst Leumann: The nun. A new novel from ancient India . Oskar Schloss Verlag, Munich-Neubiberg 1921.
  • Ernst Leumann: Small writings . Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-447-04882-8 (posthumous).
editor
  • Series Indica .
Posthumous publications
  • Overview of the Avasyaka literature . Edited from the estate by Walther Schubring, Glossary
  • Small Fonts Glossary

literature

  • Catalog of the Papers of Ernst Leumann in the Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg
  • 恩師 ロ イ マ ン 教授 . In: Association of Esoteric Buddhist Studies (Ed.):密 教 研究 . tape 42 , 1931, ISSN  1884-3441 , pp. 122–151 , doi : 10.11168 / jeb1918.1931.42_122 (Japanese).
  • Ernst Leumann . In: Journal of the German Oriental Society , Volume 87, p. 69 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manu Leumann: In memory of Prof. Dr. Serious. Leumann, b. April 11, 1859, d. April 24, 1931 . Buchdr. Report House, 1931.
  2. ^ A b Andreas Bigger: Ernst Leumann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 4, 2008 , accessed October 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ Ernst Leumann: An outline of the Āvaśyaka literature . Preface by Nalini Balbir. Ed .: Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology. Ahmedabad 2010, ISBN 978-81-85857-32-9 (English, German: overview of the Avasyaka literature . Hamburg 1934. Translated by George Baumann).
  4. ↑ LCCN  99-939999
  5. ↑ Monier-Williams (Ed.): Sanskrit-English Dictionary . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1899.
  6. ↑ Walther Schubring, Friederichsen et al .: Leumann, Ernst, overview of the Avasyaka literature. Edited from the estate by Walther Schubring . Hamburg 1934.
  7. ↑ Ernst Leumann: Small writings . Ed .: Harrassowitz Verlag. 1998, ISBN 978-3-447-04882-8 . (Reprint)
  8. ^ Klaus Mylius: Ernst Leumann, Small writings. Edited by Nalini Balbir . In: Journal of Linguistics . tape 21 , no. January 1 , 2002, doi : 10.1515 / zfsw.2002.21.1.137 .
  9. ↑ Birte Plutat: Old and New Indian Studies . Franz Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07096-6 , Ernst Leumann: List of transcrib. Copies and excerpts ect
personal data
SURNAME Leumann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Jainologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Berg , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1931
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau