Albrecht Weber

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Albrecht Weber, 1899

Friedrich Albrecht Weber (German pronunciation:

Indologist and historian who studied the history of Jainism in India.[3]
Some older sources have the first and middle names interchanged.

Weber was born in

privatdocent in 1848, and in 1856 became an adjunct professor of the language and literature of ancient India. In 1867 he was made full professor. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, and was the author of many books and periodical contributions on classical subjects. He was a close friend of Max Müller.[4] Johannes Klatt was among his students.[5]

Weber might be one of the earliest Indologists who emphasized the social philosophy of Buddhism. In his opinion "Buddhism is, in its origin, one of the most magnificent and radical reactions in favour of the universal human rights of the individual against the oppressing tyranny of the pretended privileges of divine origin, of birth, and of class." Weber was specifically against the caste privileges of the Brahmins.[6]

Weber married Emma Frederike Althauss in 1849. They had six children, three dying young in Berlin.[7][4] Weber grew blind in his later years and died in 1901 in Berlin.[6]

Works

He also contributed much lexicographical material, especially from Vedic literature, to the Sanskrit-Wörterbuch of

Rudolf Roth
.

Notes

  1. ^ "Albrecht – Deutsch-Übersetzung – Langenscheidt Französisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch" (in German and French). Langenscheidt. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0
  3. ^ Bendall, C. (7 December 1901). "Obituary: Prof. Albrecht Weber". The Athenæum (3867): 774.
  4. ^ a b Parpola, Asko (2003). "Publications of the Great Indologist Fr. Albrecht Weber". Studia Orientalia. 97: 189–219.
  5. ^ Flügel, Peter (2017). "Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852–1903). Forgotten Chronicler of Jainism and Bibliographer of Oriental Literature: Letters to Albrecht Weber 1874–1882, Ernst Kuhn 1881–1889, Charles Rockwell Lanman 1889 and Ehrhardt Karras 1891, with Curricula Vitae, and a Complete Bibliography of Johannes Klatt's Works". Berliner Indologische Studien. 23 (1): 69–141.
  6. ^ a b Morgenroth, W. (1975). "Albrecht Friedrich Weber - a pioneer of Indology". Indologica Taurinensia. 3 (4): 321–338.
  7. ISBN 978-81-89524-97-5
    .

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