Maria Schetelich
Maria Schetelich (* 1938 ) is a German Indologist.
Life
From 1957 to 1962 she studied Indology and Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After graduation in 1968 on rural economic and legal conditions in Kautiliya Arthashastra and Habilitation 1983/86 on the emergence of varna theory and varna system in Vedic times she was from 1992 to 1996 research assistant at the Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies of the University of Leipzig in Framework of the scientist integration program for employees of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1962 to 1992 she worked at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin(Institute for Orient Research, Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology, Department of the Ancient Orient). In 1997 she was accepted into the teaching staff of the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies. From 1992 to 1998 she worked on the project of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld Historical thinking and historical meaning formation in an intercultural comparison .
Her areas of work are state theory and political theory (Arthashastra, Nītishastra), Dharmashastra, epic and Purana, Indian historiography (ancient and medieval) and the history of science.
Fonts (selection)
- with Eva Ritschl: Studies on Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra . Berlin 1973, OCLC 802087152 .
- with Walter-Friedrich Reineke , Helmut Freydank and Thomas Thilo: The old Orient in brief . Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-85063-090-0 .
- with Eva Ritschl: The twenty-five stories of the death demon. From Sanskrit . Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-379-00470-7 .
- as editor with Helmut Eimer , Michael Hahn and Peter Wyzlic: Studia Tibetica et Mongolica. (Festschrift Manfred Taube ) . Swisttal-Odendorf 1999, ISBN 3-923776-34-9 .
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| SURNAME | Schetelich, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuke, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |