Ludwig Heller (Indologist)

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Ludwig Heller (born August 18, 1866 in Travemünde , † August 21, 1945 in Greifswald ) was a German Indologist , Indo-Europeanist and university professor.

Life

Ludwig Heller was the youngest son of Pastor Ludwig Heller in Travemünde. Ernst Heller and Johannes Heller were his older brothers. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1886 . He then became a one-year volunteer in Erlangen, where he joined the AMV Fridericiana Erlangen in the summer semester of 1886 . After his service, he studied Indology and Indo-European linguistics from 1887 to 1893 at the University of Göttingen . Franz Kielhorn in particular became his teacher.

In 1893 he was awarded a doctorate in Göttingen with a critical edition of a historical Sanskrit grammar. phil. PhD. The work was only published in parts. In the fall of 1893, he joined as a research volunteer in the service of the Berlin State Library and worked with Albrecht Weber at the distortion of Indian manuscripts. In 1897 he completed his habilitation at the University of Greifswald . In the summer semester of 1904 he became an associate professor in Greifswald with a teaching position for Indian philology. After his colleague Heinrich Zimmer moved to Berlin, he also took over some of the courses on Indo-European philology. Zimmer's son, Heinrich Zimmer (Indologist), was his colleague as a private lecturer from 1920 to 1922 .

From 1924 Heller represented the entire field of Indo-European philology in Greifswald alone. The difficulties in appointing a successor allowed him to continue teaching even after his retirement until the end of his life.

Heller published little and was shy of the public in Low German , but had a self-sacrificing devotion to teaching.

He remained unmarried. Every year at Christmas he gave birth to 15 children from the Greifswald orphanage in his apartment on Karlsplatz (today Karl-Marx-Platz) .

Diether Lauenstein was his scientific heir and inherited Heller's estate.

Fonts

  • Halâyudha's Kavirahasya: Introduction. Göttingen, Phil. Diss. 1894.
  • The Gaṇa ʿmṛṣādiʾ. Leipzig 1896 (in: Gurupūjākaumudī [Gurupûǵâkâumudî]. Presentation for the 50th anniversary of the doctorate presented by A. Weber )
  • Halāyudha's Kavirahasya in both reviews. Greifswald: Abel 1900 (Sanskrit prints: a collection of Indian texts 1).

literature

  • Leopold Magon: Ludwig Heller †. In: Indogermanisches Jahrbuch 27 (1948) pp. 273-277.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4057 . (with portrait photo)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 876.
  2. ^ Karl Eduard Haas: The Academic-Musical Association Fridericana in the Sondershäuser Association, formerly the student choir in Erlangen . Erlangen 1982, self-published, p. 254.
  3. ↑ Magon (Lit.), p. 276.
  4. ↑ Magon (Lit.), p. 276.
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist, Indo-Europeanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Travemünde
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1945
Place of death Greifswald