Ernst Waldschmidt
Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897, Lünen, Province of Westphalia – February 25, 1985, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Indologist. He was a pupil of German indologist Emil Sieg.
He taught at Berlin University and began teaching at the University of Göttingen in 1936. Waldschmidt joined the Nazi party in May 1937.[1]
He was a specialist on Indian philosophy, and archaeology of India and Central Asia. He also founded Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt.
Literary works
- Buddhistische Kunst in Indien, 1932
- Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien (the 7th Volume), 1933
- Gandhara, Kutscha, Turfan, 1925
- Die Überlieferung vom Lebensende des Buddha, 2 Vols., 1944-1948
References
- ↑ Anikó Szabó: Vertreibung, Rückkehr, Wiedergutmachung - Göttinger Hochschullehrer im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus, 2000
Bibliography
- Härtel, Herbert (1987), Ernst Waldschmidt (1897-1985), Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 137 (1), 6-11 – via JSTOR (subscription required)
External links
- http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/galeria/waldschm.htm (pictures)
- http://www.indologie.uni-goettingen.de/cms/index.php?id=13 (German)
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