Paul Thieme
German indologist

Paul Thieme

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German indologist
A.K.A.
Paul Thieme, Тиме, Пауль
Gender:
Male
Places:
Germany
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LinguistProfessorEducatorIndologistReligious scholar
Work field:
AcademiaLiteratureReligionSocial science
Birth:
18 March 1905(Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg)
Death:
24 April 2001(London, Kingdom of Wessex, UK)
Star sign:
Pisces
Education:
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Göttingen district, Germany
Employers:
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Tübingen District, Germany
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Germany
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Germany
University of Wrocław
Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Paul Thieme (German: [paʊl ˈtiːmə]; 18 March 1905 – 24 April 2001) was a German Indologist 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".

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.