René Nebesky-Wojkowitz

René Nebesky-Wojkowitz (born June 29, 1923 in Velké Hoštice , † July 9, 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ethnologist and Tibetologist .

biography

René Nebesky-Wojkowitz traveled the Himalayas for several years . He wrote fundamental works on the Tibetan folk religion and the mountain cult. In 1958 he became a scientific official at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna, to which he left an extensive collection of Tibetan objects and manuscripts.

Works

• Writing, paper production and printing among the Tibetans (dissertation, Vienna 1949).
• The cult and iconography of the Tibetan protective deities (Habilitation, Vienna 1955).
• Where the mountains are gods. Three years with unexplored peoples of the Himalaya (Stuttgart 1955).
• The Tibetan State Oracle (Archive for Ethnology 3; Vienna, Braumüller 1948).
• Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities (Den Haag, Mouton 1956); New editions: Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 1975; Translation into Chinese: Xīzàng de shénlíng hé guǐguài西藏 的 神灵 和 鬼怪 (Lhasa, Xīzàng rénmín chūbǎnshè 西藏 人民出版社 1993), ISBN 7-223-00456-8 .
• Tibetan Religious Dances: Tibetan Text and Annotated Translation of the 'chams yig (Den Haag / Paris, Mouton 1976), published posthumously by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf , with an appendix by Walter Graf, ISBN 90-279-7621-X .
• Ancient funeral ceremonies of the Lepchas. In: The Eastern Anthropologist 5.1, 1952
• Wedding songs of the lepchas. In: Asian Studies 6: 1-4, 1952.
• The use of thread-crosses in Lepcha lamaist ceremonies (with Geoffrey Gorer). In: The Eastern Anthropologist 4.2, 1951.
• A Contribution to Mahayana iconography (1951).

literature

• Michael Torsten Much:  Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René Mario. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 18 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about René Nebesky-Wojkowitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on René Nebesky-Wojkowitz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )