Richard von Garbe

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Richard Karl Garbe , von Garbe since 1909 , (born March 9, 1857 in Bredow near Stettin ; † September 22, 1927 in Tübingen ) was a German Indologist who made significant contributions to the research of Samkhya , Yoga and the Bhagavadgita .

Life

The famous mathematician and later Indologist Hermann Graßmann was one of his teachers at the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin . Garbe studied at the University of Tuebingen first mathematics then, Indology . After receiving his doctorate, Garbe conducted research on Shrautasûtra manuscripts in London . In 1878 he completed his habilitation and worked at the University of Königsberg, initially as a private lecturer, from 1880 as an associate professor .

From 1885 to 1887 Garbe traveled to India with financial support from the Prussian state , where he studied Samkhya texts under the guidance of Indian scholars . In his book Indian Travel Sketches in 1889 he reported on his many excursions in India and Ceylon .

In 1894 he became a full professor of Indology in Königsberg . In the following year, however, he was appointed to the University of Tübingen to succeed his late teacher Rudolf von Roth . 1908/1909 he was rector of the university.

Garbe edited a large number of Sanskrit texts and translated many of them, including the Sâmkhya Sûtras . In 1894 his book The Sâṃkhya Philosophy was published , in which he analyzed the origins and sources of this Indian philosophical system and a. came to the conclusion that the Hellenic spiritual world was evidently strongly influenced by ancient India.

In 1905, a German translation of the Bhagavad Gita followed , in which Garbe was primarily concerned with a philologically correct, but not poetically demanding, reproduction of the original text. Garbe took the view that about seventy verses in the text (about the impersonal Brahman ) were later interpolations and marked them with small print. His view was not shared by all Indologists, but he found support from Moriz Winternitz, among others .

The Karl Baedeker Verlag won Garbe to contribute to his on the eve of the First World War appeared, prestigious India-band , for which he wrote the ethnographic and art-historical introduction.

Richard Garbe was raised to the Württemberg personnel nobility in 1909 by being awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

Garbe married in 1887 in Königsberg i. Pr. Anna Wichert (* 1865), daughter of the former Königsberg city judge and writer Ernst Wichert . The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters.

Fonts

  • Vaitāna Sūtra. The ritual of Atharvaveda. Trübner, Strasbourg 1878.
  • The Indian minerals, their names and the powers attributed to them. Hirzel, Leipzig 1882.
  • Indian travel sketches. Paetel, Berlin 1889.
  • The Sâṃkhya philosophy. A representation of Indian rationalism. Haessel, Leipzig 1894.
  • Sāṃkhya and yoga. Trübner, Strasbourg 1896.
  • Directory of Indian manuscripts in the royal university library (growth from 1865 - 1899) , Tübingen university library 1899.
  • Contributions to Indian cultural history , Paetel, Berlin 1903.
  • The Bhagavadgita translated from Sanskrit. With an introduction to its original form, its teachings and its age. Haessel, Leipzig 1905.
  • Emperor Akbar of India. A picture of life and culture from the sixteenth century , Laupp, Tübingen 1909.
  • On Indian folklore, culture and art history. In: Baedeker 's India. Leipzig 1914, pp. XXXVI ff.
  • India and Christianity. Tübingen 1914; Reprint: VDM, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-2193-5 .
  • The philosophy of ancient India , Ashutosh Prakashansansthan, Varanasi 1980.

literature

  • Helmut Hoffmann:  Garbe, Richard v. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 69 ( digitized version ).
  • Julius von Negelein (ed.): From India's culture. Festgabe Richard von Garbe presented to the researcher and teacher on his 70th birthday by his friends, admirers and students , Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1927 (publications of the Indo-European Seminar of the University of Erlangen, Volume 3).
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 166-167.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Garbe: The Sâṃkhya Philosophy. A representation of Indian rationalism. Haessel, Leipzig 1894, chapter “About the connection between the Samkhya doctrine and Greek philosophy”.
personal data
SURNAME Garbe, Richard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garbe, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Bredow
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1927
Place of death Tübingen