- Paul Thieme
Paul Thieme (1905-2001) was a scholar of
Vedic Sanskrit . He received his doctorate inIndology in 1928 inGöttingen , and habilitated there in 1932. From 1932 to 1935 he taught German and French at the University ofAllahabad . He taught atBreslau from 1936 to 1940, and reveived tenure at Halle in 1941, but in the same year he was drafted to the German army, where he worked as an interpreter. In 1945, he was captured by U.S. troops inWürttemberg . After his release in 1946, he returned to Halle, where he remained until 1953, when he moved toFrankfurt for a professorship inIndo-European studies , against the will of the GDR authorities. From 1954 to 1960 he was inYale , and from 1960 to his retirement in 1972 inTübingen as professor forReligious studies and Indology.Thieme is considered one of the "last great Indologists", advancing all aspects of the philology of
Sanskrit , with expertise reaching from theVedas to the Epics and theUpanishad s, Sanskrit poetry and traditional Hindu science (shastra ), and Indian grammarians (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 firstWorld Sanskrit Conference inDelhi in 1971-1972.elected 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.External links
*http://www.indologie.uni-halle.de/instgesch/th.htm
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