Rahul Peter Das

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Rahul Peter Das (born July 7, 1954 in Haan ) is Professor of South Asian Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the chairman of the German Society for Asian Studies . He received the Hind Rattan award in 2006 and the Nav Rattan award in 2009 , and is editor or co-editor of: Traditional South Asian Medicine , South Asian Studies worksheets , communications on the social and cultural history of the Islamic world and publications on Indo-European studies and anthropology , and South Asia editor , Orientalist literary newspaper and Kindler's literary dictionary .

Career

As early as 1958 he went to Calcutta with his parents and was there until 1972 in a secular Jesuit school. After passing the Higher Secondary Examination , he attended Calcutta Medical College , which he left in 1973 with the qualification Preliminary Examination for Medical Students . He received several honors for his achievements during training and was the Indian representative at the 1973 London International Youth Science Fortnight . In order to obtain an Abitur, which is also recognized in Germany, and to be able to study there, he attended the Städtische Helmholtz-Gymnasium in Hilden from 1974 to 1975 .

In 1975 he began studying Indology , Islamic Studies and Dravidology ( Tamil Studies ) at the University of Cologne , but switched to the University of Hamburg in 1978 , where he obtained his master's degree in 1981 . At the same university he received his doctorate in 1985 with a work on the ancient Indian plant enclosure, which appeared in 1988. The habilitation was completed in Hamburg in 1993, with a work on ancient Indian medicine and sex education, which was published in 2003.

After having worked at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn and Groningen (NL) since 1981, he was appointed to the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in 1994, initially as professor of modern Indian philology , and since 2014 as professor of languages ​​and cultures of modern South Asia . In Halle, Das developed an approach to modern South Asia that also includes South Asian Islam and is based on modern South Asian languages, which is based on a combination of philology and social sciences and uses Paul Thieme's methodological principles applied in the field of philology , which he developed through his teachers and Thieme students Klaus Ludwig Janert and Albrecht Wezler . In 2000, the new subject was introduced alongside the existing subject Indology as the languages ​​and cultures of modern South Asia ; In 2006 it was further developed as a South Asian customer. The first Venia legendi with the denomination “Languages ​​and Cultures of Modern South Asia” was acquired by Hans Harder , who completed his habilitation in 2006 and was then appointed to the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University.

Das held various positions in self-administration at the University of Halle; He is currently, among other things, Dean of Studies of the Philosophical Faculty I; until the end of 2008 he was also director of the university's language center.

This has come to the fore with various initiatives on the relationship between Germany and the South Asia region as well as dealing with this region in Germany. He is chairman of the Indo-German Society in Halle (Saale).

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SURNAME That, Rahul Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist, Professor of South Asian Studies
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan