Friedrich Weller (philologist)

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Friedrich Weller (born July 22, 1889 in Markneukirchen , † November 19, 1980 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist and Indologist .

Life

Friedrich Weller's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

After graduating from high school, Friedrich Weller devoted himself to studying philology at the University of Leipzig before starting his work on Zum Lalita in 1915 . I. About the prose of Lalita Vistara to Dr. phil. PhD in Buddhism .

After completing his habilitation in Indology at the University of Leipzig in 1922, in the same year he was appointed private lecturer for Chinese and East Asian religious history at the Philological and Historical Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, which he completed until 1928. Immediately thereafter, Weller received the unscheduled professorship for Sanskrit , Chinese and East Asian religious history, before he took over the chair for Indian philology in 1938 , which he held until his retirement in 1958. In 1933 he signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges about Adolf Hitler .

Honors

Weller was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1943 to 1980 . In 1955 he was awarded the GDR's second class national prize for science and technology .

In recognition of his services in the field of Indology, the Friedrich Weller Prize, endowed with 2500 euros, was launched in 1985 .

Fonts

  • The Chinese Dharmasamgraha: With an appendix on the Lakkhanasuttanta of the Dīghanikāya, habilitation thesis , Leipzig: H. Haessel Verlag, 1923
  • A thousand Buddha names of Bhadrakalpa: Based on a five-language polyglot, Leipzig: Verlag des Asia Major, 1928
  • Brahmajālasutra: Tibetan a. Mongolian text, Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1934
  • On the Soghdic Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Leipzig: FA Brockhaus, 1937
  • About the source reference of a Mongolian Tanjur text, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1950
  • Attempt to criticize the Kathopaniṣad, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1953
  • Mongolica of the Berlin Turfan Collection (Ed. Erich Haenisch ) .1a: On the block print fragments of the Mongolian Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Berlin Turfan Collection, treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Language, Literature and Art Class. Born in 1954 No. 2. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1955
  • The fragments of the Jātakamālā in the Turfan Collection of the Berlin Academy, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955
  • The legend of Śunaḥśepa in Aitareyabrāhmaṇa and Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956
  • Investigation of the textual development of the Tibetan Buddhacarita, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JJ Beylsmit, Jetske Rijlaarsdam: Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1981, 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Weller, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and indologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Markneukirchen
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1980
Place of death Leipzig