Harry Falk

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Harry Falk (* 1947 ) is professor emeritus for Indology at the Free University of Berlin . He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and the German Archaeological Institute. From 1993 to 2012 he was director of the Institute for the Languages ​​and Cultures of South Asia, which was dissolved in 2012 at the instigation of the Presidium after more than 150 years of Indology in Berlin. His works are of a philological, archaeological and cultural-historical nature and deal exclusively with classical India from prehistory to the Guptas.

Work

  • Sources of Pañcatantra (Freiburg contributions to Indology) (German edition, 1978) ISBN 978-3447019569
  • Brotherhood and dice game: Studies on the history of the development of the Vedic sacrifice (German edition, 1986) ISBN 978-3925270000
  • Scripture in ancient India: A research report with annotations (ScriptOralia, German edition, 1993) ISBN 978-3823342717
  • Aśokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-Book with Bibliography Mainz 2006 ISBN 978-3805337120
  • The tidal waves of Indian history in "Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE" (Oxford University Press 2006)
  • Foreign terms in Sanskrit in "The Idea of ​​Writing: Play and Complexity (Brill, 2010)
  • Harisyenalekhapañcasika: Fifty Selected Papers on Indian Epigraphy and Chronology , 2014 ISBN 978-3944312040

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References

  1. ↑ Patrick Olivelle: Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE ( en ). Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780199775071 , p. Xii.
  2. ^ University profile
  3. ↑ Piotr Andreevich Eltsov: From Harappa to Hastinapur: A Study of the Earliest South Asian City and Civilization ( s ). Brill, 2008, ISBN 9789004160606 , p. Xxxi.
  4. ↑ Annette Wilke, Oliver Moebus: Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism ( en ). Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 9783110240030 , p. 191.
  5. ^ Josef Lössl, Nicholas J. Baker-Brian: A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity ( en ). John Wiley & Sons, 2018, ISBN 9781118968116 , p. 212.
  6. ↑ Patrick Olivelle: Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE ( en ). Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780199775071 .
  7. ↑ Alexander J. de Voogt, Irving L. Finkel: The Idea of ​​Writing: Play and Complexity ( en ). BRILL, 2010, ISBN 900417446X , p. 207.
personal data
SURNAME Falk, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German indologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1947