Paul Thieme
Paul Thieme | |
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| Born | 18 March 1905 |
| Died | 24 April 2001 (aged 96) London, England, UK |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Awards | Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (1988) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
Main interests | Indian philosophy Comparative linguistics |
Paul Thieme (German: Indologist[1] and scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. In 1988 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".[2]
Biography
He received his doctorate in
Yale, and from 1960 to his retirement in 1972 in Tübingen as professor for Religious studies
and Indology.
Work
Thieme is considered one of the "last great Indologists",[Panini and his commentators). Thieme was also a comparative linguist, studying Iranian and Indo-European languages in general. Thieme was fluent in Sanskrit, and therefore respected among traditional Indian scholars, holding the inauguration speech at the first World Sanskrit Conference in Delhi in 1971–1972.
Selected bibliography
- 1929: Das Plusquamperfektum im Veda (Diss. Göttingen 1928).
- 1935: Panini and the Veda. Studies in the Early History of Linguistic Science in India. Allahabad
- 1938: Der Fremdling im Rigveda. Eine Studie über die Bedeutung der Worte ari, arya, aryaman und aarya, Leipzig.
References
- ISBN 978-0-8386-4208-5.
- ^ "Paul Thieme". Inamori Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
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