Karin Preisendanz

Karin Preisendanz (born January 6, 1958 in Heidelberg ) is a German Indologist .

Life

She received the Dr. phil. at the University of Hamburg and in 1995 the habilitation and the venia legendi in Hamburg . From 1986 to 1987 she was a research assistant at Albrecht Wezler and from 1987 to 1990 at the Institute for Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University of Berlin . From 1990 to 1993 she was Assistant Professor for Hinduism and Buddhism at the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia . From 1993 to 1999 she was research assistant C1 at the Institute for Culture and History of India and Tibet in Hamburg. Since 1999 she has been a professor of Indology at the University in Vienna .

Studies on Nyāyasūtra III.1 with the Nyāyatattvāloka Vācaspati Miśras II. Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06460-5 .
as editor with Dietmar Rothermund : South Asia in the “Modern Times”. History and Society, 1500–2000 . Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85371-195-2 .
as editor: Expanding and merging horizons. Contributions to South Asian and cross-cultural studies in commemoration of Wilhelm Halbfass . Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7001-3792-4 .
as editor with Eli Franco : Beyond Orientalism. The work of Wilhelm Halbfass and its impact on Indian and cross-cultural studies . Delhi 2007, ISBN 81-208-3110-1 .