Ernst Waldschmidt

Ernst Waldschmidt 1938

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 .

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[]

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

External links[]

• http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/galeria/waldschm.htm (pictures)
• https://archive.is/20120906182336/http://www.indologie.uni-goettingen.de/cms/index.php?id=13 (in German)

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