Peter Schreiner (Indologist)
Peter Schreiner (* 1945 in Austria ) is a German Indologist .
Life
Schreiner studied Indology, Philosophy and Religious Studies in Mainz , Munich , Philadelphia and Varanasi . He received his Masters Degree from the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 1972 he received his doctorate in Münster under Paul Hacker with a work on Premchand . From 1974 to 1986 he lived in Tübingen , where he initially worked as a research assistant at the seminar for Indology and Comparative Religious Studies until 1982, completed his habilitation and then worked as a research assistant on the Tübingen Purana project. He then stayed in New Delhi and from 1988 in London , where he taught as a lecturer of Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies . In 1989 he became associate professor for Indology in Zurich .
His research interests are classical and modern Hinduism, epics, Purāṇas, Viṣṇuism and yoga.
Fonts (selection)
- The reflection of hinduism in the works of Premcand . 1972, OCLC 493350090 .
- Yoga. Basics, methods, goals. A bibliographical overview . Bonn 1979, OCLC 174232343 .
- with Renate sons: Brahmapurāṇa. Summary of contents, with index of names and motifs . Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02960-9 .
- Hinduism in a nutshell . Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-7820-0811-1 .
Web links
- aoi.uzh.ch
- uzh.academia.edu
- Literature by and about Peter Schreiner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Michaels, Cornelia Vogelsanger, Annette Wilke: Wild Goddesses in India and Nepal: Proceedings of an International Symposium, Berne and Zurich, November 1994. P. Lang, Bern 1996, p. 572.
- ^ Magazine of the University of Zurich. 2/99, p. 64 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpenter, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Austria |