Regius Professor of South Asian Languages (Edinburgh)
The Regius Professor of South Asian Languages, Culture and Society is a 1862 by Queen Victoria as Regius Professor of Sanskrit donated Regius Professorship of South Asian Languages and Culture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The history of the professorship begins with the brothers John (1810–1882) and William Muir (1819–1905), who worked for the East India Company for years in India . After their return from India, William became the head of the university and, with his brother, founded a professorship in Sanskrit in 1862 with the right to name the first professor himself. After this professor the right fell to the crown.
List of professors
| Surname | name additional |
from | to | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Theodor Aufrecht | 1862 | 1875 | The professor elected by John and William Muir was upright. He left Edinburgh in 1875 to take up a professorship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . His most important achievement is the work on the Catalogus Catalogorum published in 1891 . | |
| Hans Julius Eggeling | 1875 | 1914 | The second professor, Hans Julius Eggeling, who came from Germany like Aufrecht, was a prominent Indologist at the end of the 19th century and secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society in London. He translated the Shatapatha Brahmana into English, but without being able to fully understand or appreciate the content. In 1914 he went on vacation to Germany and was unable to return because of the First World War . He died in Germany in 1918. | |
| Arthur Berriedale Keith | MA, DCL | 1914 | Oct 6, 1944 | Keith, trained by Eggeling, was not only a philologist, but also a licensed Inner Temple bar and a constitutional law specialist. After Keith's death, his sister donated a library to the university. His most important works were Vedic and Classical Sanskrit. |
| not occupied | Oct 6, 1944 | 2014 | The chair has not been filled for 70 years. The teaching of Asian languages and culture was continued in Edinburgh. | |
| Jonathan Robert Spencer | FRSE | 2014 | From 1980, Spencer gained experience with field research in Sri Lanka , where he primarily deals with changes in agriculture. Today he is widening his attention to the boundaries between politics and religion in Sri Lanka and other regions. |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Our History, South Asian Studies on the University of Edinburgh website; accessed on December 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b c List of Indiologists. ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Hans Julius Eggeling (1842–1918) from Oxford References, accessed December 27, 2016.
- ^ A b Announcement of the appointment of Arthur Berriedale Keith as Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the University of Edinburgh. In: London Gazette , October 30, 1914.
- ↑ a b c d Directory of Rare Book Collections, Arthur Berriedale Keith, July 31, 2015 on the University of Edinburgh website; accessed on December 27, 2016.
- ↑ A. Berriedale Keith, The Veda of the Black Yajus School ; Translation of the Vedic writings by Arthur Berriedale Keith (PDF) on sanskritweb.net
- ^ A b c Announcement on the appointment of Jonathan Robert Spencer as Regius Professor of South Asian Languages, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh. In: London Gazette , April 11, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Presentation of Jonathan Spencer's profile on the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science website; accessed on December 27, 2016.
