Oskar von Hinüber (Indologist)

Oskar von Hinüber (born February 18, 1939 in Hanover ) is a German Indologist .

Life

Oskar von Hinüber studied from 1960 to 1966 in Tübingen , Erlangen and Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1966. He then worked as an assistant at the University of Mainz and, after completing his habilitation in 1973, as a professor. From 1981 until his retirement in 2006, von Hinüber was Professor of Indology at the University of Freiburg . With his resignation on March 31, 2006, the position there was canceled.

In the course of his academic career, he held visiting professorships at the University of Vienna in 1984, at the Collège de France in 1996, the University of Oxford in 1996, the Sorbonne in 2002 and the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies in 2008.

Memberships (selection)

• 1984–1994 2nd chairman of the German Oriental Society
• 1993 Full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
• 1995–2002 General Secretary of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
• 1996 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1996 board member of the Pali Text Society
• 2007–2010 President of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

Publications (selection)

• Investigations into the orality of early Middle Indian Buddhist texts . Mainz 1994.
• A handbook of Pāli literature . de Gruyter, Berlin 1996.
• Contributions to the explanation of the Senavarma inscription , Mainz 2003.
• India's path to modernity. History and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries . Aachen 2005.
• The Pali manuscripts of the Lai Hin monastery near Lampang in Northern Thailand . Wiesbaden 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar von Hinüber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Oskar von Hinüber in Freidok

Remarks

1. ↑ Member entry of Oskar von Hinüber at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz