On what subject did this German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived in Britain for most of his life and is considered one of the most important German scholars in Indian Philology alongside Heinrich Zimmer, work on?
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Heinrich Zimmer Heinrich Robert Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was an Indologist and historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" and "Philosophies of India". He was the most important German scholar in Indian Philology after Max Müller (1823-1900). In 2010, a "Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History" was inaugurated at Heidelberg University.
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Max Müller Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), generally known as Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. The "Sacred Books of the East", a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of a Turanian family of languages.
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Walter Ruben (Indologist) Walter Ruben (26 December 1899 – 7 November 1982) was a German Indologist. His main contribution was on the social history of ancient India and on the history of Indian philosophy and literature.
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Indomania Indomania or Indophilia refer to the special interest India, Indians and Indian culture have generated in the Western world, more specifically the culture and civilisation of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Germany. The initial British interest in governing their newly conquered territories awoke the interest in India, especially its culture and ancient history. Later the people with interests in Indian aspects came to be known as Indologists and their subject as Indology. Its opposite is Indophobia.
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German-Indian German-Indian, Indian-German or Indo-German may refer to:
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Heinrich Wenzel Heinrich Wenzel (7 June 1855 in Mainz – 16 June 1893 in London) was a German Indologist and Tibetologist.
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Julius Wellhausen Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918), was a German biblical scholar and orientalist. In the course of his career, he moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship. Wellhausen contributed to the composition history of the Pentateuch/Torah and studied the formative period of Islam. For the former, he is credited as one of the originators of the documentary hypothesis.
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Adalbert Bezzenberger Adalbert Bezzenberger (14 April 1851 – 31 October 1922) was a German philologist. He was born at Kassel and died at Königsberg. He is considered to be the founder of Baltic philology.
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Friedrich Müller (linguist) Friedrich Müller (born 6 March 1834, Jemnik, Austrian Empire (now Jemnice, Czech Republic); died 25 May 1898, Vienna) was an Austrian linguist and ethnologist who originated the term "Hamito-Semitic languages" for what are now called the Afro-Asiatic languages.
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Abel Bergaigne Abel Henri Joseph Bergaigne (31 August 1838 – 6 August 1888) was a French Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit. He wrote a number of books related with religion, philosophy. He published the beginning of a study on grammatical construction, which is regarded for its historical development, languages included Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Germanic languages among others.
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Balthasar Walther Balthasar Walther (1558 – c. 1631) was a Silesian physician and Christian Kabbalist of German ethnicity. Born in Liegnitz in modern Poland, Walther was a significant influence on the thought of the German theosopher Jakob Böhme. As an itinerant Paracelsian enthusiast, Walther was active throughout the Holy Roman Empire, in Poland, Transylvania and elsewhere. He died in Paris sometime before December 1631.
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Friedrich August Rosen Friedrich August Rosen (2 September 1805 in Hannover – 12 September 1837 in London) was a German Orientalist, brother of Georg Rosen and a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He studied in Leipzig, and from 1824 in Berlin under Franz Bopp. He was briefly professor of oriental literature at the University of London and became secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1831.
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Franz August Schmölders Franz August Schmölders (28 November 1809 in Rhede, Münsterland – 21 February 1880 in Breslau) was a German orientalist. His focus was the Arabic language and literature.
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Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (] ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans," Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Hegel and Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism.
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Hermann Breymann Hermann Wilhelm Breymann (3 July 1842 – 6 September 1910) was a German philologist and pedagogue.
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Joseph Schacht Joseph Franz Schacht (born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose "Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence" (1950) is still considered a centrally important work on the subject. The author of many articles in the first and second editions of the "Encyclopaedia of Islam", Schacht also edited the second edition of "The Legacy of Islam" for the "Legacy" series of Oxford University Press and authored a textbook under the title "An Introduction to Islamic Law" (1964).
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Émile-Louis Burnouf Émile-Louis Burnouf (] ; 26 August 1821, in Valognes – January 1907, in Paris) was a leading nineteenth-century Orientalist and racialist whose ideas influenced the development of theosophy and Aryanism. He was a professor at the faculté de lettres at Nancy University, then principal of the French School at Athens from 1867 to 1875. He was also the author of a Sanskrit-French dictionary.
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Scottish orientalism Scottish orientalism refers to the collective views of a group of Scottish scholars of oriental languages, informed by the Scottish Enlightenment, and applied to the culture and administration of the Indian subcontinent though the East India Company, from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century.
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Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich, also Sir William Schlich, KCIE (28 February 1840, Flonheim – 28 September 1925, Oxford) was an eminent German-born forester who worked extensively in India for the British administration. As a professor at Cooper's Hill, he influenced colonial forestry across the British colonies. His major work was a five volume "Manual of Forestry" (1889-96).
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Georg Feuerstein Georg Feuerstein (27 May 1947 – 25 August 2012) was a German Indologist specializing on Yoga. Feuerstein authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism. He translated, among other traditional texts, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( ; ] ; August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although Hegel remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized.
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Johann Karl Eduard Buschmann Johann Karl Eduard Buschmann (February 14, 1805, Magdeburg - April 21, 1880, Berlin) was a German philologist. His research in comparative philology was directed chiefly toward the dialects of Malaysia and Polynesia and those of Central and Northwestern America. He worked closely with Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt.