Friedrich Otto Schrader

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Friedrich Otto Schrader (born March 19, 1876 in Hamburg , † November 2, 1961 in Kiel ) was a German Indologist . He mainly dealt with Indian philosophy and Buddhist literature . He is also cited as F. Otto Schrader and is not related to the Indo-European Otto Schrader .

life and work

Schrader studied in Strasbourg and obtained his doctorate in 1902. theol. From 1905 to 1916 he headed the library of the Adyar Theosophical Society . From 1921 he taught as a professor of Indology in Kiel.

In 1897 he became a member of the Alemannia Göttingen fraternity .

In April 1933 members of the “Combat Committee Against the Un-German Spirit” also removed Schrader's works from Kiel's libraries in order to burn them in May. Schrader was the only one in Kiel to have his writings approved by the assurance of "pure Aryan descent".

Publications (selection)

  • Small fonts. Wiesbaden 1983, with bibliography
  • Hinduism. ( Religious history reading book 14) Tübingen 1930
  • The Kashmir recension of the Bhagavadgītā. Stuttgart 1930
  • Introduction to the Pāncarātra and the Ahirbudhnya Samhita. Madras 1916, reprinted Madras 1995

literature

  • German biographical encyclopedia & German biographical index. CD-ROM, Munich 2001, sv , ISBN 3-598-40360-7
  • Valentina Stache-Rosen: German Indologists. Biographies of scholars in Indian studies writing in German. 2nd edition New Delhi 1990, pp. 186f., ISBN 81-85054-97-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 468.
  2. ^ Carsten Mish, Christoph Cornelißen : Kiel. In: Julius H. Schoeps , Werner Treß (ed.): Places of the book burnings in Germany 1933. Olms, Hildesheim 2008, pp. 527-543, the section about Kiel online (PDF, 93 kB) without pagination
personal data
SURNAME Schrader, Friedrich Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrader, F. Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd, 1961
Place of death Kiel