Friedrich Wilhelm (Indologist)

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Friedrich Wilhelm (born April 12, 1932 ) is a German Indologist, Tibetologist and historian.

Wilhelm received his doctorate in 1956 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he had been a private lecturer in Indology and Tibetology since 1963. In 1969 he became a professor there. In 1998 he retired.

In 1964 and 1967 he was studying in South Asia and was visiting professor at Columbia University in 1965/66 and in 1976 at the Collège de France .

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  1. Biography based on Fischer Weltgeschichte Volume 17
  2. ^ History of the Chair for Indology Munich