Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoi
Fyodor Ippolitowitsch Schcherbatskoi ( Russian Фёдор Ипполитович Щербатской ; born September 19, 1866 in Kielce , Congress Poland ; † March 18, 1942 in Burabai , Kazakh SSR ) was a Russian Indologist with a focus on Buddhism . He is considered the founder of scientific considerations on Buddhist philosophy in the western world.
Life
Shcherbatskoi studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and later at the St. Petersburg State University , where Ivan Minajew and Sergei Oldenburg were his teachers. He then went abroad and studied Indian poetry in Vienna with Georg Bühler and Buddhist philosophy in Bonn with Hermann Jakobi . In 1897 he and Oldenburg founded the Bibliotheca Buddhica , a collection of rare Buddhist texts. In 1903 Shcherbatskoi published his book Epistemology and Logic according to the teachings of later Buddhists in Russian after a trip through India and Mongolia . He then initiated the Institute for Buddhist Culture in Leningrad in 1928 . His work, Buddhist logic , had an enormous influence on Buddhist studies . In 1931 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
His knowledge of Sanskrit and Tibetan languages earned him the respect of Rabindranath Thakur and Jawaharlal Nehru . Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya said of Shcherbatskoi that he helped Indians discover their own past and develop the right perspective on their philosophical legacy. The Encyclopædia Britannica describes him as "the foremost Western authority in Buddhist philosophy".
Work (selection)
- Epistemology and logic according to the teachings of the later Buddhists , Munich-Neubiberg: O. Schloss, 1924,
- Buddhist logic , Osnabrück: Biblio-Verl., Neudr.
- The Central Conception of Buddhism and the Meaning of the Word Dharma
- Madhyanta vibhanga. Discourse on Discrimination Between Middle and Extreme , translation by Shcherbatskoi
- Abhisamayalankara - Prajnaparamita - Upadesa -Sastra
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article about the Bibliotheca Buddhica ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ 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. 232.
- ↑ Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (Nov. 19, 1918 - May 8, 1993) - Indian Marxist philosopher. The quote comes from “Introduction”, foreword by Chattopadhyaya in Papers of Th. Stcherbatsky (1969) (Calcutta: Indian Studies, Past & Present - Soviet Indology Series, No. 2).
literature
- D. Seyfort Ruegg, Dedication to Th. Stcherbatsky , Journal of Indian Philosophy 1 (3), (November 1971), pp. 213-216
- Bapat, PV (1943), Fedore Ippolitorich Stcherbatsky , Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 24 (3/4), 284-285
Web links
- Profile of Shcherbatskoy on the pages of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Biography in Russian
- The Scholarly Activity of Fyodor Stcherbatsky article in English
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shcherbatskoi, Fyodor Ippolitowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stcherbetsky, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kielce |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1942 |
| Place of death | Burabai |