Jens Peter Laut

Jens Peter Laut (born January 6, 1954 in Hanover ) is a German orientalist and professor of Turkish and Central Asian studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Scientific career

Laut studied religious studies , Indology and Turkology in Marburg and Gießen from 1976 to 1980 . He completed his studies with a master's thesis on Buddhist notions of hell and received his doctorate in 1985 with a study on the Old Turkish Language and Literature, which was published in 1986 under the title Early Turkish Buddhism and its literary monuments . From 1981 to 1984 he worked on the Gießen DFG project Indian loan words in Old Turkish , and from 1985 to 1988 he worked on the DFG project Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East (TAVO) . a. created historical maps of Evliya Çelebi's travels and the Ottoman Empire. In 1993 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with a thesis on modern Turkish language reform: Turkish as an original language? (published 2000). From 1996 to 2008 he was Professor (C3) for Islamic Studies / Turkish Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and has been Professor (W3) for Turkish Studies and Central Asian Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 2008 . Since 2010 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and since April 2016 Vice President and Chairman of its humanities and social sciences class.

His main research interests are pre-Islamic and early-Islamic Turkish Central Asia (languages, religions, history), language reform in Turkey , modern Turkish literature and Kemalism .

Projects

• 2002–2004 PROCOPE project: "Maitreya with the Tochars and Turks" (together with Georges-J. Pinault, Sorbonne, Paris)
• 2004–2007 head of the DFG project "Nurculuk: Fundamentalist Theology in Turkey" (collaborator: Martin Riexinger, Freiburg)
• 2003–2010 Together with Erika Glassen, managing editor of the translation project Turkish Library (20 volumes, project of the Robert Bosch Foundation in cooperation with Unionsverlag, Zurich)
• 2010–2015 head of two DFG projects on Old Turkish literature ( Maitrisimit nom bitig and Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā ; project staff : Ablet Semet and Jens Wilkens)
• 2016: Creation of a concise dictionary of Altuigur (collaborators: Jens Wilkens and Zekine Özertural)
• from 2017: Project leader of the long-term project "Dictionary of Old Uyghur" of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (chairman of the management committee: Klaus Röhrborn)

Publications (selection)

• Early Turkish Buddhism and its literary monuments . Wiesbaden 1986.
• Materials for Evliya Çelebi. 1. Explanations and indices for map B IX 6 “Asia Minor in the 17th Century according to Evliya Çelebi” . Wiesbaden 1989.
• Turkish as the original language? Linguistic Theories in the Age of Awakening Turkish Nationalism. Wiesbaden 2000
• The Ottoman Empire 1574–1683. The Ottoman Empire 1574–1683 . Wiesbaden 1991. (Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East [TAVO]). Map B IX 7).
• Asia Minor in the 17th century according to Evliya Çelebi. Asia Minor in the 17th Century According to Evliya Çelebi . Wiesbaden 1992. (TAVO. Map B IX 6).
• Chronology of important events in the course of the Turkish language reform. From the beginning until 1983 . In: Materialia Turcica 24 (2003), pp. 69-102.
• On the sexual lexicon of Turkish . In: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 10 (2005), pp. 69-122.
• The meeting with Maitreya. The first five chapters of the Hami version of Maitrisimit . In collaboration with H. Eimer and JP Laut ed., Translated and commented by Geng Shimin and H.-J. Climate. 1. Text, translation and commentary. 2. Facsimiles and indices. Wiesbaden 1988. (Asian research. 103.)
• A Buddhist apocalypse . The chapters of Hell (20-25) and the final chapters (26-27) of the Hami manuscript of the old Turkish Maitrisimit. Including manuscript parts of the text from Säŋim and Murtuk. Introduction, transcription and translation by Geng Shimin, H.-J. Klimkeit and JP Laut. Opladen 1998. (Treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. 103.)
• Bibliography of Old Turkish Studies . Selected u. arranged chronologically by V. Adam, JP Laut u. A. White. Wiesbaden 2000. (Oriental Studies Bibliographies and Documentations. 9.) (Update from 1998-2013 in: Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, Neue Reihe, Vol. 17–25, 2001–2013.)
• What is turkish In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 2011 , Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 273–285.
• Ants and prajñārakṣita . In: Türk Dilleri Arastirmalari 21 (2011), pp. 131–142.
• What is Turkish Studies? Considerations for a so-called orchid compartment. Bonn 2013. (Pera-Blätter 24). As well as the Turkish and English translation also available online.
• E. Ragagnin / J. Wilkens (edd.): Kutadgu Nom Bitig . Festschrift for Jens Peter Laut on his 60th birthday. Wiesbaden 2015. (Publications of the Societas Uralo-Altaica. 87.)
• JP Laut, with the collaboration of B. Pusch (edd.): Literature and Society: Small writings by Erika Glassen on Turkish literary history and on cultural change in modern Turkey. With an introduction by Erika Glassen and a preface by Jens Peter Laut. Würzburg 2014. (Texts and Studies from Istanbul. 31.)
• Through thick and thin . With special consideration of 'thick'. In: I. Hauenschild / M. Kappler / B. Kellner-Heinkele (edd.): A hundred-petalled tulip - Bir ṣadbarg lāla . Ceremony for Claus Schönig. Berlin 2016, pp. 299–307. (Studies on the language, history and culture of the Turkic peoples. 22.)
• JP Laut / J. Wilkens: Old Turkish manuscripts . Part 3. Maitrisimit nom bitig . Stuttgart 2017. (Directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany, Vol. XIII, 11.)
• Death in Buddhism . A system-immanent intermediate station. In: Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (ed.): Life and death . Göttingen 2017, pp. 69–90. (Academy in conversation. Issue 2.) [Also available online https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-335-5 ]
• Turkey: History, Present and Perspectives . Hannover 2018. (Series of publications by the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Issue 58.)

Web links

• uni-goettingen.de