Konrad Klaus

Konrad Klaus (* 1956 ) is a German Indologist .

Life

Konrad Klaus studied Indology, Tibetology , Prehistory and Early History and Semitic Studies at the universities in Göttingen and Marburg . In 1985 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on the cosmological ideas in late Vedic India . He then worked as a research assistant and assistant at the University of Bochum . In 1992 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on pottery and earthenware in Vedic India. From 1999 to 2001 he represented the professorships in Marburg, Bonn and Bochum.

Since 2001 - as successor to Claus Vogel - he has been a full professor of Indology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . His main research interests include research into material culture in Vedic times, the Brahmanas , the history of ancient Indian literature (especially the Kāvya literature), Buddhist meditation techniques and Buddhist texts in Tibetan translation.

Since 2014 he has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Fonts (selection)

• The Maitrakanyakavadana (Divyavadana 38). Sanskrit text and German translation. Bonn 1983. = Indica et Tibetica 2.
• (Together with Michael Hahn :) The Mrgajataka (Haribhattajatakamala XI). Study, texts, glossary. Bonn 1983. = Indica et Tibetica 3.
• The ancient Indian cosmology. Depicted according to the Brahmanas. Bonn 1986 (2nd edition Marburg 2004). = Indica et Tibetica 9.
• The watercraft in Vedic India. Stuttgart 1990. = Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz; Born in 1989, No. 13.

Footnotes

1. ^ Chronicle and report on the 2001/2002 academic year . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 2003, p. 128.

Web links

• Konrad Klaus at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Konrad Klaus' page at the University of Bonn