Joseph Dahlmann

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Joseph Dahlmann SJ (born October 14, 1861 in Koblenz , † June 23, 1930 in Tokyo ) was a German - Luxembourgish Catholic theologian , Indologist and Orientalist .

Life

Dahlmann joined the religious order of the Jesuits on September 30, 1878 and studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Ignatius College in Valkenburg (Holland) and at the Jesuit College Ditton-Hall, Shropshire (England). His studies focused on philology and comparative linguistics . In 1891/93 he studied Oriental Studies with specialization in Sanskrit at the University of Vienna , at the University of Berlin he deepened the subjects of Indian Classics and Chinese Literature from 1893 to 1900 and received his doctorate there.

After a short stay in the Luxembourg writers' home of the order, he undertook research trips to China and India in 1902/05 , where he learned Sanskrit, among other things . Following a request from Pope Pius X , he was called to Japan by the order's leadership as the first German Jesuit. On October 18, 1908, he arrived in Yokohama with Henri Boucher, former director of a Jesuit academy in Shanghai, and the American James Rockliff, a native of England who had trained in Austria and was a former superior in a Jesuit province in the United States . In 1913 he was one of the co-founders of Jōchi Daigaku (today's Sophia University ), the Catholic private university in Tokyo, and taught German-language literature and Indian philosophy . From 1914 to 1921 he was also Professor of German Language and Literature and Classical Greek at the Imperial University of Tokyo .

In Luxembourg he was involved in a project to found a Jesuit university, which failed.

Joseph Dahlmann published numerous works on Japanology and Indology, Buddhism and Thomas Christianity . He was personally friends with Georg Cantor . His younger brother was Franz Dahlmann SJ, who worked as a missionary in Brazil .

Fonts

  • Linguistics and missions. A contribution to the characteristics of the older Catholic missionary work (1500–1800) , 1891
  • Nirvana. A Study of the Prehistory of Buddhism , 1896
  • The ancient Indian folklore and its significance for social studies , 1899,
  • The Idealism of Indian Philosophy of Religion in the Age of Sacrifice Mysticism , 1901
  • Indian journeys (2 volumes), 1908
  • The Thomas Legend and Christianity's Oldest Historical Relationships with the Far East in the Light of Indian Antiquity , 1912
  • On the floods of the Ganges , 1914
  • Japan's oldest ties to the West 1542-1614 in contemporary monuments to his art 1923

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Joseph Dahlmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Tapp: Cardinality and Cardinals: the historical study of the correspondence between Georg Cantor and Catholic theologians of his time, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, page 285 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Harald Fuess: "German Jesuits in Japan" (PDF; 99 kB), accessed on March 3, 2012
  3. ↑ Volker Zotz: “Joseph Dahlmann. A Buddhism researcher in Luxembourg. " In: forum for politics, society and culture No. 212 (December 2001), pp. 39–41, ISSN  1680-2322 .
  4. ↑ Joseph Dahlmann: Nirvana. A Study of the Prehistory of Buddhism . Adamant Media Corporation, 2005, ISBN 1-4212-2371-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - reprint).
  5. ↑ archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Dahlmann, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, Roman Catholic theologian and Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1930
Place of death Tokyo