Jean Philippe Vogel

Jean Philippe Vogel

Jean Philippe Vogel (born January 9, 1871 in The Hague , † April 10, 1958 in Oegstgeest ) was a Dutch Indologist .

Life

Jean Philippe was the son of the lawyer and later Vice-President of the Court of Amsterdam Johan Gregorius Vogel (born April 6, 1843 in Rotterdam, † September 27, 1920 in Heemstede) and his wife Jeanne Adrienne du Quesne van Breuchem (born December 3, 1844 in Arnhem; † August 18, 1890 in Amsterdam). After attending the primary schools in Alphen aan den Rijn and Rotterdam , he attended the high school in Alkmaar in 1883 and the grammar school in Haarlem in 1886 . In 1890 he moved to the University of Amsterdam to devote himself to oriental studies. Here Christianus Cornelis Uhlenbeck (born October 18, 1866 in Voorburg, † August 12, 1951 in Lugano) was his formative teacher, with whom he mainly dealt with Sanskrit . Together with Johan Huizinga , he also followed the lectures Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern at the University of Leiden .

Returning to Amsterdam, he completed his doctoral examination on July 5, 1895, and received his doctorate in philosophy on December 15, 1897 with a Dutch translation of the ancient Indian drama Mrcchakatika . In 1898 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and in 1899 moved to British India , where he examined the archival sources of the East India Company and practically experienced the Sanskrit language. In 1901 he was appointed superintendent of the Archaeological Survey of India , the northern part of British India in Lahore and in 1911 he became the official general director of archeology in British India. Since the chair for Sanskrit at the University of Leiden had become vacant in 1913 , Vogel was appointed to the professorship for Sanskrit, its literature and Indian archeology on January 17, 1914, which he did on April 1, 1914 with the introductory speech Bronnen tot kennis van het oude Indië (German: Sources for Knowledge of Ancient India ) took over and became head of the Kern Institute.

During his period of activity, Vogel wrote numerous essays in the scientific journals and journals of his time, which earned him a lot of recognition. He became a corresponding member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1910 and a full member in 1915 , an honorary member of the Société asiatique in Paris in 1935, an honorary member of the American Oriental Society in 1939 , a foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris in 1950 and a corresponding member of the school in 1955 of Oriental and African Studies in London. He was also an honorary member of the United Provinces Historical Society in Lucknow , an honorary member of the Oosters Genootschap in Nederland, an honorary member of the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi and a corresponding member of the German Society for East Asian Art in Berlin. He became Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire and Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . In the academy year 1930/31 rector of the Leiden University , for which he gave the rector's speech De cosmopolitische beteekenis van het Buddhisme (German: The cosmopolitan meaning of Buddhism ) on February 9, 1931 . On 16 September 1939, he was out of his chair emeritus and was honorary chairman of the Nuclear Institute.

Vogel married Maria Strumphler (born June 23, 1879 in Hengelo; † July 17, 1959 in Oegstgeest) in Amsterdam on April 15, 1913, the daughter of the machine factory director Coenraad Hendrik Strumphler (born May 18, 1843 in Amsterdam; † 2. June 1910 in Ubbergen) and Maria Catharina Mertens (born June 14, 1848 in Amsterdam; † September 17, 1923 in Eibergern). The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

• Het leemen wagentje, Indian tooneelspel uit het Sanskṛit en Prākṛt in het Nederlandsch vertaald. Amsterdam 1897.
• De beoefening the Oud-Indian litteratuur in Nederland. Amsterdam 1898.
• Antiquities of Chamba state. Volume 1, Calcutta 1911; Volume 2, Delhi 1957.
• Bronnen tot de kennis van het oude Indië. Leiden 1914.
• Tile-mosaices of the Lahore Fort. Calcutta 1920.
• Indian serpent-lore or the Nāgas in Hindu legend and art. London 1926 ( online ).
• La sculpture de Mathura. Paris / Brussels 1930.
• De cosmopolitan beteekenis van het Buddhisme. Leiden 1931.
• De Buddhist art van Voor-Indië. Amsterdam 1932.
• De first grammatica van het hindoestansch. Amsterdam 1941.
• De zegelring van Râksjasa door Wisjâkhadatta. Leiden 1946.
• De zeven lotusbloemen. Leiden 1948.
• The Indonesian question. Leiden 1948.

literature

• How is dat Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1931, p. 273.
• Prof. Dr. J. Ph. Vogel op 87-year leeftijd onverwacht overleden. In: Leidsch Dagblad. April 10, 1958, p. 3. (online)
• Hanneke J. 't Hart-van den Muyzenberg: Vogel, Jean Philippe (1871-1958). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. Volume 4, The Hague 1994. ( online )

Web links

• Vogel biogram and bibliography
• Vogel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Vogel at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)
• Bird entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)