Monika Boehm-Tettelbach

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Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (also Monika Horstmann, Thiel-Horstmann, Jordan-Horstmann ; born June 3, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German Indologist and professor emeritus at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Her main research interests are religious literatures and the religious history of northern India since the 16th century, particularly with regard to the connection between religion and politics.

Life

Monika Boehm-Tettelbach studied Indology, Ancient Iranian Studies , Hittite and Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin from 1960 to 1966 , where she did her doctorate under Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow (1925-2016) on a language of northeastern India. She then worked as a research assistant at the Department of Indian Philology at the Free University of Berlin (1966–1969) and at the Department of Indology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1969–1973), before joining the latter in 1975 for the subject Indology a thesis on folk song literature of northeastern India and then worked there as a private lecturer and from 1979 as an adjunct professor of Indology. During this time she was visiting professor at the Department of Indology at the Institute for Oriental Languages ​​at Stockholm University in 1976 and at the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University in 1985/1986 . In 1989 Boehm-Tettelbach became a C3 professor for Indology at the University of Cologne , but the next year she switched to a C4 professorship for modern-language South Asian studies at the Otto-Friedrichs-Universität Bamberg , where she was dean of the faculty for language from 1992 to 1994. and literary studies. In 1994 she followed the call of a C4 professorship for modern Indology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in connection with the management of the department for modern language South Asian studies until her retirement in 2006. There she was executive director of the South Asia Institute between 1996 and 1998 . In 2002 she was visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris as the representative for Western Europe of the Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University in Wardha.

Monika Boehm-Tettelbach was an expert reviewer at the German Research Foundation from 1988 to 1992 and has been a deputy reviewer for the specialist group on Indology and Ancient Iranian Studies since 2000, member of the priority program “Controversial Centers: Construction and Change of Socio-Cultural Identities in the Indian Region of Orissa” (SPP 1066 ) and from 2002 to 2013 was a member of the Collaborative Research Center 619 on “Ritual Dynamics: Sociocultural Processes in a Historical and Comparative Perspective”. From 2002 to 2009 she was head of the subproject B5 “Court rituals in the Principality of Jaipur and their new editions in the present”. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the Advisory Board for Science and University Issues of the Bavarian State Minister for Education, Culture, Science and Art.

In 1992 she became an Honorary Fellow of the Government Sanskrit College in Calcutta . In 2004 the South Asia Institute , represented by the two department heads Monika Boehm-Tettelbach and Axel Michaels , was awarded the State Teaching Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg . In 2017 he was appointed Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • Sadani . A Bhojpuri Dialect Spoken in Chotanagpur (Bihar) (=  Indologia Berolinensis . No. 1 ). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1969 (English).
  • Sadani songs . Studies on a North Indian folk song literature (=  modern Indian studies . No. 5 ). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1978.
  • Crossing the Ocean of Existence . Braj Bhāṣā Religious Poetry from Rajasthan. A reader. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983 (English).
  • Night watch . A form of Indian worship (=  Indica et Tibetica . No. 6 ). Indica et Tibetica Verlag, Bonn 1985.
  • Living from the truth . Texts from the sacred scriptures of the Sikhs (=  classic of Eastern meditation . No. 3 ). Benziger, Zurich 1988.
  • Dādū . Songs (=  contributions to research on South Asia . No. 138 ). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1991.
  • In Favor of Govinddevjī . Historical Documents Relating to a Deity of Vrindaban and Eastern Rajasthan. In collaboration with Heike Bill. Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts and Manohar, Delhi 1999 (English).
  • Banāsā . A Spiritual Autobiography. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003 (English).
  • Rock inscriptions . Contemporary Hindi poetry (=  Modern Indian literature . No. 7 ). Draupadi-Verlag, Heidelberg 2007.
  • The cohesion of the world . Religious authority legitimation and religious policy Mahārājā Savāī Jaisinghs (1700–1743) (=  Khoj - A Series of Modern South Asian Studies . No. 8 ). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boehm-Tettelbach, Monika . In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th completely revised edition. Register. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-146949-7 , p. XXV .
personal data
SURNAME Boehm-Tettelbach, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horstmann, Monika; Thiel-Horstmann, Monika; Jordan-Horstmann, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin