Stanley Insler
Stanley Insler (born June 23, 1937 in New York City , † January 5, 2019 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American Indologist .
Life
Clara and Frank Insler's son attended the Bronx High School of Science until the age of sixteen when he enrolled at Columbia University . He graduated from Columbia College in 1957. He studied from 1960 to 1962 at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1963 from Yale University. After receiving his doctorate, he moved to the Yale faculty, where he later became the Edward E. Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology . In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Upon his retirement in 2012, he was granted the status of emeritus. He died on January 5, 2019, at the age of 81 at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Fonts (selection)
- Verbal paradigms in Patañjali. 250 roots and their paradigmatic derivations as used and discussed by Patañjali in the Mahābhāṣya . New Haven 1962, OCLC 63866791 .
- The Gāthās of Zarathustra . Leiden 1975, ISBN 90-04-03902-3 .
literature
- as editors Joel P. Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison : Special issue. Indic and Iranian studies in honor of Stanley Insler on his sixty-fifth birthday . Ann Arbor 2002, OCLC 66914346 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Insler, Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 2019 |
| Place of death | New Haven , Connecticut |