Ernst Steinkellner
Ernst Steinkellner (born October 3, 1937 in Graz ) is an Austrian Tibetologist and Indologist .
Life
Steinkellner in 1963 at the University of Vienna in the subject Indology doctorate , 1967 habilitation he did. In 1971 Ernst Steinkellner began as a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania , and in 1972 he became Associate Professor of Indian Philosophy there . After his appointment to the University of Vienna in 1973, Ernst Steinkellner founded the Institute for Tibetology and Buddhist Studies , of which he was director until 2000. He belonged to the following Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies until his retirement in 2006. From 1998 to 2006 Steinkellner also acted as director of the Institute for Cultural and Humanities Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2008 Ernst Steinkellner received the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize .
Awards
Works
- Translated from Sanskrit and provided with an introduction by Ernst Steinkellner: Shantideva : The way of life to enlightenment . Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen 2005, ISBN 3720526429
- with Michael Torsten Much: Texts from the epistemological school of Buddhism . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3525823045
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Steinkellner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Austrian Academy of Sciences : Wittgenstein Prize of the Research Association to Ernst Steinkellner
- Ernst Steinkellner (ÖAW, Institute for Asian Cultural and Human Sciences)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stone waiter, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Tibetologist and Indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |