Robert Zimmermann (Jesuit)

Robert Zimmermann SJ (born October 24, 1874 in Döttingen ; † February 8, 1931 in Feldkirch ) was a Swiss Jesuit, university teacher and linguist .

Life

Robert Zimmermann was the son of the barber and businessman Josef Zimmermann and his wife Regina, nee. Weber. He attended the Schwyz grammar school and entered the Jesuit order in 1896. From 1900 to 1903 he studied philosophy in Valkenburg aan de Geul and then until 1907 theology and English at the Jesuit Spirituality Center St. Beuno's College in Tremeirchion in the Principal Area Denbighshire in North Wales . In 1908 he began his Sanskrit and Pali studies at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1913.

From 1914 to 1930 he taught as a professor of Sanskrit and ancient Indian philosophy at St. Xaviers College of the University of Bombay , where he was also a member of the university senate; later he became head of the Bandarkar Institute for Oriental Research ( Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute) in Pune . Due to illness, he returned to Switzerland in 1930 and died the following year. Robert Zimmermann published a selection of hymns from the Rigveda and combined his scientific achievements with missionary commitment.

Fonts (selection)

• The sources of the Mahānārāyaṇa-Upaniṣad and the relationship between the various reviews. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1913.
• Logic in the philosophical systems of Sankaracarya and Aristotle. 1919.
• Robert Zimmermann; JS Taraporewala: Selections from Avesta and Old Persian. Calcutta, 1922.
• Peter Peterson Sāyaṇa; Robert Zimmermann: A second selection of hymns from the Rgveda. Government Central Press, Bombay 1922.
• The identity between Varuna and Ahura Mazda . 1924.
• RG Bhandarkar . In: Journal of the German Oriental Society , Volume 80, pp. 328–335.
• Outline of a comparison between the metaphysics of Aristotle and those of brahmanical sanskrit literature. 1927.

Web links

• Josef Stierli: carpenter, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .