Ernst Waldschmidt

Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897, Lünen, Province of Westphalia – February 25, 1985, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Indologist. He was a pupil of German indologist Emil Sieg.

He taught at Berlin University and began teaching at the University of Göttingen in 1936. Waldschmidt joined the Nazi party in May 1937 and became a member of the National Socialist German Lecturers League in 1939.[1]

He was a specialist on Indian philosophy, and archaeology of India and Central Asia. He also founded Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt.

Literary works

Buddhistische Kunst in Indien, 1932
Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien (the 7th Volume), 1933
Gandhara, Kutscha, Turfan, 1925
Die Überlieferung vom Lebensende des Buddha, 2 Vols., 1944-1948

References

Anikó Szabó: Vertreibung, Rückkehr, Wiedergutmachung - Göttinger Hochschullehrer im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus, 2000

Bibliography

Härtel, Herbert (1987), Ernst Waldschmidt (1897-1985), Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 137 (1), 6-11 – via JSTOR (subscription required)
Bechert, Heinz (1986). Ernst Waldschmidt (1897-1985) (Obituary), Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 9 (1), 147-149

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