Ernst Waldschmidt

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Ernst Waldschmidt (born July 15, 1897 in Lünen , † February 25, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German Sanskritist and Indologist .

Life

After Waldschmidt had initially worked in Berlin as curator and professor at the Museum of Ethnology , he accepted the call to the chair of Indology at the University of Göttingen in 1936 .

On May 1, 1937, Waldschmidt joined the NSDAP , and on January 1, 1939 he became a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association . In 1937 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Ernst Waldschmidt was a specialist in Indian philosophy and archeology from India and Central Asia . One focus of his work was the research of the Sanskrit texts from the Turfan finds and the creation of a Sanskrit dictionary , which he edited together with Heinz Bechert . Waldschmidt made Göttingen a center for research into Buddhist literature .

With the establishment of the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation , he continued to support research and publications on Indian philology, art and archeology. There is also an Ernst Waldschmidt Prize , which is awarded every five years by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indologie.uni-goettingen.de
  2. ^ Anikó Szabó: Expulsion, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism, with biographical documentation of the dismissed and persecuted university professors: University of Göttingen - TH Braunschweig - TH Hannover - University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Wallstein , Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89244-381-0 (= publications of the working group history of Lower Saxony (after 1945), volume 15, also dissertation at the University of Hanover 1998) p. 132
  3. ↑ 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. 251.
  4. ↑ Ernst Waldschmidt: The Mahavadana sutra . A canonical text on the seven last Buddhas. Sanskrit, compared with the Pali along with an analysis of the parallel versions handed down in Chinese translation based on Turfan's manuscripts. Part II: Text editing . In: Treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Language, Literature and Art Class . No. 3 , 1954.
  5. ↑ Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation (Berlin) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indologie.uni-goettingen.de

literature

  • Härtel, Herbert (1987), Ernst Waldschmidt (1897–1985), Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 137 (1), 6–11
  • Bechert, Heinz (1986). Ernst Waldschmidt (1897-1985) (Obituary), Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 9 (1), 147-149
personal data
SURNAME Waldschmidt, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and indologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Luenen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1985
Place of death Goettingen