Julius Jolly (Indologist)

Julius Jolly (born December 28, 1849 in Heidelberg , † April 25, 1932 in Würzburg ) was a German Indologist . His research focus was primarily on translations from the field of ancient Indian medicine and ancient Indian law.

Life

Julius Jolly was the son of the physicist Philipp von Jolly , nephew of the Baden State Minister Julius Jolly and brother of Friedrich Jolly , professor of psychiatry in Strasbourg, and Ludwig von Jolly , professor of administrative law in Tübingen.

He first studied comparative language studies in Munich in 1867/68, and later Iranian and Sanskrit in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1871 he received his doctorate in Munich with a thesis on "The theory of modes in the old Iranian dialects", and in 1872 he received his habilitation in Würzburg. There he was associate professor from 1877 and full professor for comparative linguistics and Sanskrit from 1886. 1909/1910 he was rector of the university. During a stay in India in 1882/1883 he was Tagore Professor of Law in Calcutta . In 1920 he retired. Since 1922 he was co-editor of the Journal of Indian History . He held honorary doctorates from the Universities of Göttingen (1901) and Oxford. In 1904 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm: Jolly, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 591-607 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Julius Jolly (Indologist) - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Julius Jolly in the catalog of the German National Library
Julius Jolly's estate in the Bavarian State Library
Full text of Julius Jolly's writings

Individual evidence

↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia . Ed. Walther Killy. Vol. 5, 1997.
^ Wilhelm, Friedrich: "Jolly, Julius", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), p. 591 f., Http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117168025.html
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 125.

personal data
SURNAME	Jolly, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1932
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] German Biographical Encyclopedia . Ed. Walther Killy. Vol. 5, 1997.

[2] Wilhelm, Friedrich: "Jolly, Julius", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), p. 591 f., Http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117168025.html

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 125.