Klaus Mylius

Klaus Mylius (2018)

Klaus Mylius (born August 24, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German Indologist . He was professor for Sanskritistik and Indian antiquity at the University of Leipzig until 1990, then at the universities in Bayreuth and Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Klaus Albert Robert Curt Mylius experienced the Second World War as a child in Berlin , during which the Mylius family lost their apartment three times due to the bombing of the Allies . In 1945, the year of the war, the young person was evacuated to Siegersleben ( Magdeburg Börde ). He then worked as a farm worker and newspaper carrier until 1948. From 1946 to 1948, Klaus Mylius completed a commercial apprenticeship in the sales department of Siegersleben. From 1948 to 1952 he took over functions within the SED , FDJ and DSF . Subsequently, Mylius headed the central school for projectionists of the State Committee for Film in Halle (Saale) until 1953 . From 1953 to 1955 he was a lecturer at the adult education center in Halle (Saale) .

In 1954, Klaus Mylius was able to take a special maturity examination at what was then the Labor and Farmers Faculty (ABF) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). From 1954 to 1958 he studied geography at the Institute for Geography (Director: Rudolf Käubler ) and from 1957 to 1961 Indology at the Institute for Indology (Director: Karl Ammer ) at the University of Halle. Here Mylius was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. in geography with the dissertation on Economic Geography of Pakistan doctorate (Referees: Rudolf Käubler and Karl Ammer ). 1964 followed his second doctorate to Dr. phil. in Indology on the subject of the social conditions in India after the Śatapatha-Brāhmana (reviewer: Karl Ammer ).

At the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , Mylius completed his habilitation in 1968 with a thesis on India in the Middle Vedic period based on the Sanskrit sources (reviewers: Karl Ammer , Rigobert Günther and Walter Markov ).

From 1970 to 1976 he was a professor for Sanskrit philology in the African and Middle Eastern Studies section at the University of Leipzig (Section Director: Gert Kück ). In 1976 he became an associate professor for Sanskrit and Indian antiquity and continued to head the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies . In addition, he was here for a time the party group organizer (PO) of his party group in the SED . As an informal employee , Mylius also worked for the Ministry of State Security .

After the reunification of Germany , Mylius moved to the University of Bayreuth , Institute for Religious Studies (Director: Ulrich Berner ), where he was a lecturer until 1994. Since 1996 he has been a lecturer in Sanskrit, first at the Institute for Philosophy (Director: Wilhelm K. Essler ) and then at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics (Director: Jost Gippert ) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Klaus Mylius is an internationally recognized Indologist who represents his special field of Sanskrit and Indian antiquity with passion. To the present day, he has been realizing new book projects and publishing them (2018).

His first marriage was to Karin Mylius , who died in 1986. The son Frank and the daughter Gloria come from this marriage . Mylius has been with Monika , geb. Voigt , graduate bookseller (FH) and journalist, married.

Memberships

• 1986–1992: full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (philological-historical class)
• 1992–1994: corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
• since 1996: elected member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin (class for social sciences and humanities)
• since 2004: full member of the Berlin Scientific Society

Awards

• 1985: Friedrich Weller Prize from the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
• 2000: Rabindranath Tagore - Literature Prize of the Indo-German Society ; awarded in equal parts to Klaus Mylius and Hans Wolfgang Schumann
• 2007: United Cultural Convention of the United States of America in connection with the United Nations in New York
• 2009: The biography is included in the ABI publication 500 Greatest Geniuses of the 21st Century

Klaus Mylius has received awards from the American Biographical Institute (ABI), including Fellow of the American Biographical Institute (FABI), the American Medal of Honor from the ABI, and the International Peace Prize. The United Cultural Convention of the United States of America and the American Biographical Institute have the same mailing address.

Publications

Klaus Mylius has published more than 25 books of his own and is still involved in almost 50 books, each of which achieved several, sometimes up to 5, editions. There are also around 450 scientific articles and reviews.

• Literature by and about Klaus Mylius in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Kama Sutra. German translation from Sanskrit and introduced by Klaus Mylius. Reclam, Leipzig 1987.
• Sanskrit - German, German - Sanskrit. Dictionary. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05143-4 .
• Śaurasenī - grammar and glossary. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-447-11130-0 .

literature

• Lars Göhler (Ed.): Indian culture in context - rituals, texts and ideas from India and the world. Festschrift for Klaus Mylius on his 75th birthday. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-05207-8 .

Web links

• Klaus Mylius in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A contemporary witness reports from 1945 ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 21 kB), lecture on the air raids in Berlin by Klaus Mylius. In: Rebland-Kurier, April 30, 2003.
2. ↑ Laudation for Gudrun Goeseke given by Heidi Bohley on the occasion of the award of the Emil L. Fackenheim Prize on November 15, 2007 (PDF; 62 kB)
3. ↑ Steffen Könau: Unusual biography. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of May 23, 2016 (accessed October 5, 2016).
4. ↑ Website of the Institute for Comparative Linguistics
5. ↑ A true connoisseur of ancient India. Badische Zeitung , August 24, 2005.
6. ↑ Indologist with passion. Reblandkurier, August 24, 2005.
7. ↑ The jubilee never ran out of ideas for new projects. Badische Zeitung, August 24, 2015.
8. ↑ Anniversary boy with an alert mind. Reblandkurier, August 26, 2015.
9. ↑ Klaus Mylius, Prof. Dr. phil., Dr. rer. nat. , Website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, accessed on April 15, 2016.
10. ^ Eternal directory of members of the Leibniz Society , website of the Leibniz Society, accessed on April 15, 2016.
11. ↑ single view: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Klaus Mylius , website of the Berlin Scientific Society, accessed on April 15, 2016.
12. ↑ DIG press release on the annual general meeting in Baden-Baden from November 2000. In: Bulletin of the German-Indian Society, 3/2000.
13. ↑ Peace Prize for Klaus Mylius / UCC honors professor ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 67 kB). 
14. ^ Badische Zeitung, September 6, 2007.