- Emil Schlagintweit
Emil Schlagintweit (
7 July 1835 -29 October 1904 ) was a German scholar noted for his work onBuddhism inTibet .Schlagintweit was the youngest of the five
Schlagintweit brothers ofMunich . His father was a wealthy eye-surgeon, his mother died when he was quite young, and he was tutored byFranz Joseph Lauth , later a notedEgyptologist . The brothers' interest in exploration was sparked byAlexander von Humboldt 's "Cosmos", the first volume of which appeared in 1845, and which led to their explorations of theAlps and in turn to Asia's mountains.After his brother Hermann's death in 1882, he inherited Schloß Jägersburg, their large estate near Forchheim, and the brothers' collections and papers. Not an explorer himself, he sold 102 Tibetan manuscripts and
block-book s collected by his brothers to theBodleian Library atOxford University where they remain.His work was later used by
Helena Blavatsky as evidence for her interpretations of "esoteric" Buddhism.Selected works
* "Buddhism In Tibet. With An Account Of The Buddhist Systems Preceding It In India", Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1863. [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bit/index.htm Online version]
* "Die Könige von Tibet : von der Entstehung koniglicher Macht in Yárlung bis zum Erlöschen in Ladák : Mitte des I. Jahrh. vor Chr. Geb. bis 1834 nach Chr. Geb.", Munchen : Verlag der k. Akademie, in Commission bei G. Franz, 1866.
* "Die Gottesurtheile der Indier; Rede gehalten in der öffentlichen Sitzung der Köngl. Akademie der Wissenschaften am 28. März 1866 zur Erinnerung ihres einhundert und siebenten Stiftungstages", München, Im Verlage der Königl. Akademie, 1866.
* "Kelat, the Brahui kingdom on the southern border of Iran", Simla, Govt. Central Branch Press, 1876.
* "Indien in Wort und Bild" (Leipzig, 1880-1881)References
* "
Schlagintweit ",1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
* Gabriel Finkelstein, "Conquerors of the Künlün"? The Schlagintweit Mission to High Asia, 1854-57", Hist. Sci., xxxviii (2000)External links
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bit/index.htm "Buddhism In Tibet. With An Account Of The Buddhist Systems Preceding It In India."]
* [http://www.blavatsky.net/forum/taylor/tibetanSources10.htm Blavatsky depedence on Schlagintweit]
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