Hermann Kulke

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Hermann Kulke (born May 30, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German historian and Indologist . He is a professor emeritus of Asian history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . His publications deal with the history of India , especially the premodern , regional culture and history of Orissa , state formation and building as well as historical relations between India and Southeast Asia .

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Kulke studied Indology , Asian history and political science in Freiburg and Madras . In 1967 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on Chidambaram Mahatmya , the founding legend from the 12th century of the Nataraja Temple in Chidambaram . From 1967 to 1988 he worked at the South Asia Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg as an assistant and adjunct professor for Indian history. In 1975 he completed his habilitation there. From 1988 to 2003 he held the chair for Asian History at the Department of History at Kiel University. Numerous research stays in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Cambodia followed.

Visiting Professorships in Bhubansewar / Orissa (1978/1979), at the Asiatic Society, Calcutta (1986) and at Jawaharlal Nehru University , Delhi (1992), as well as Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1987), and on He then took on the Asia Research Institute at the University of Singapore .

Kulke's main areas of work and interests are the history of Asia with a focus on India and Southeast Asia, in particular early development, historiography, regional cultures (especially Orissa), and Indian influences in Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean Studies .

Kulke took part as a project member in the DFG's first Orissa research project on the Jagannatha cult of a special form of the god Vishnu and his temple and carriage festival ( Ratha Yatra ) in the city of Puri in Orissa from 1970 to 1975. About 25 years later he took over the management of the second Orissa project (1999 to 2005). After the first project had dealt with the political and religious centers (compare: Jagannath Temple ) along the coast, the second project pursued the research into the history and local traditions of the ethnic groups and tribal people in the hinterland of Orissa.

He was also the coordinator of the DFG priority program “Controversial Centers: Construction and Change of Socio-Cultural Identities in the Indian Region of Orissa” (1999–2005).

Hermann Kulke is a brother of the journalist Ulli Kulke .

Awards

Publications

  • Cidambaramahatmya. An examination of the religious history and historical background for the emergence of the tradition of a south Indian temple city. (Dissertation) Wiesbaden 1970.
  • Editor of Hermann Goetz : Studies in the History, Religion and Art of Classical and Medieval India. 1974.
  • Associate Editor of The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa . 1978.
  • The Devaraja Cult . Cornell University 1978.
  • Jagannatha cult and Gajapati kingship. A contribution to the history of religious legitimation of Hindu rulers . (Habilitation) Stuttgart 1979.
  • Gajapati Kingship . 1979.
  • Associate Editor of Orissa: A Comprehensive and Classified Bibliography . 1982.
  • With Dietmar Rothermund : History of India. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007097-5 (3rd edition 2018).
  • Co-editor of Cities in South Asia , Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-515-03396-3 .
  • Co-editor of Regional Tradition in Südasien , Steiner, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-515-04519-8 .
  • With Dietmar Rothermund: A History of India. Croom Helm, London a. a. 1986, ISBN 0-7099-4209-5 .
  • Co-editor of Kaṭakarājavaṃśāvali. A traditional history of Orissa with special reference to Jagannatha Temple , Volume 1, Vohra, Allahabad 1987 (= Sources of Orissan history , Volume 1), ISBN 81-85072-08-6 .
  • Associate Editor of Hinduism Reconsidered . Delhi 1989, 2nd edition 1997.
  • Kings and Cults - State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia . Delhi 1993.
  • Editor of The State in India 1000-1700 . 1995.
  • Associate Editor of: Jagannath revisited. Studying society, religion, and the state in Orissa , Manohar, New Delhi 2001 (= Studies in Orissan society, culture and history , Volume 1), ISBN 81-7304-386-8 .
  • Indian history up to 1750 (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history , volume 34). Munich 2005.
  • Associate editor of Nagapatinam to Suvarnadwipa. Reflections on the Chola Naval Expeditions to Southeast Asia . Singapore 2009.
  • Associate Editor of Centers Out There? Facets of Sub-regional Identities in Orissa . Delhi 2011.
  • Associate Editor of Rituals and the State in India . Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Co-editor of Imagining Odisha , 2 volumes, Prafulla, Ashram Patna 2013, ISBN 978-93-80768-01-4 and ISBN 978-93-80768-02-1 .

Festschriften

  • Martin Brandtner (Ed.): Interrogating history. Essays for Hermann Kulke , Manohar Publ. & Distributors, New Delhi 2006, ISBN 978-81-7304-679-7 .
  • Stephan Conermann (Ed.): Studia Eurasiatica. Kiel Festschrift for Hermann Kulke on his 65th birthday , EB-Verlag, Schenefeld 2003 (= Asia and Africa , Volume 10), ISBN 3-930826-99-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German-Indian Society Kiel, evening discussion with Hermann Kulke on March 13, 2012 (PDF; 266 kB).
  2. ↑ (publications by Hermann Kulke) .
  3. ↑ German Indology professor awarded Padma Shri
personal data
SURNAME Kulke, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin