Gustav Roth

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Gustav Roth (born January 22, 1916 in Breslau ; † June 6, 2008 in Lenglern ) was a German Indologist .

Life

Roth passed his A-levels at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Breslau in 1935. After that he studied from 1935 (immediately in 1935 and all year round in 1936 by work in the labor service, so that he could not start attending lectures until 1937), first at the University of Breslau and then from 1939 in Leipzig and 1941 in Halle (Saale) . During his time in Breslau, he became a member of the Corps Silesia there . In World War II he worked as a teacher of Persian at a school for interpreters of the Wehrmacht in Meissen worked and was then to Bordeaux added until the war ended interpreters where he from January 1944 Hindustani and Punjabi while stationed there Indian Freedom Corps Azad Hind Fauj was he had already looked after during the time in Königsbrück . In 1949 he enrolled at the University of Munich. He graduated in 1952 with the doctorate to the doctor of philology from. From 1953 to 1960 he stayed for scientific studies in India and Nepal . After his return he was employed as an academic advisor at the Indological Seminar of the University of Göttingen , where he stayed until his retirement in 1981. From 1982 to 1985 Roth lived as director of the Shri Nava Nalanda Mahavihara Institute in Bihar , India, before finally returning to Germany. Roth's scientific life achievement was honored by several commemorative publications.

Fonts

  • Indian Studies. Delhi 1986. (= Bibliotheca Indo Buddhica, 32.)
  • World politics and the Orient: in connection with the flight of a German pilot from Berlin to Bagdad in November 1917. Patna (India) 2002.

literature

  • Thomas Oberlies: Obituary Professor Doctor Gustav Roth. In: Jaina Studies. Issue 4, 2009, p. 22. Digital copy (PDF file; 2 MB)
  • Ute Hüsken (Ed.): Jaina-itihāsa-ratna. Festschrift for Gustav Roth on his 90th birthday. Marburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-923776-48-1 .
  • Fritz Maywald: Complete directory of members of the Corps Silesia 1821–1961. Part I. Cologne 1961, serial no.845.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Georg von Simson ( Memento of the original from December 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. (PDF file; 135 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sanskrit.nic.in

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personal data
SURNAME Roth, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2008
Place of death Lenglern