Moriz Winternitz

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Moriz Winternitz

Moriz Winternitz (

Charles-Ferdinand University after 1902, for nearly thirty years.[2][3] His Geschichte der indischen Literatur, published 1908–1922, offered a comprehensive literary history of Sanskrit texts.[4] The contributions on a wide range of Sanskrit texts by Winternitz have been an influential resource for modern era studies on Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.[5]

Education

An Austrian

Indian Civil Service
.

Work

Winternitz (left) with Tagore and Mahalanobis, 1926

In 1899, attending the Oriental Congress in Rome, he proposed the establishment of a society dedicated to studying Sanskrit texts, and particularly noted the need for a new critical edition of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.

Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague as privatdozent for Indology and general ethnology, and in 1902 was appointed to the professorship of Sanskrit (made vacant by the retirement of Ludwig) and of ethnology. The Winternitz family were friendly with Albert Einstein
, when he was in Prague around 1911.

Santiniketan and worked as a visiting professor from February 1923 to September 1924.[7] During this time in India, he continued his advocacy for Mahabharata studies, working with the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and advising them in editing their critical editions of the Mahabharata.[6] He additionally published several research papers that studied the Mahabharata, including analyses on versions of the epic common in South India, and studies of the figure of Ganesha in the epic.[6]

Among his students were Vincenc Lesný, Wilhelm Gampert and Otto Stein, who themselves went on to become prominent Indologists.

In addition to valuable contributions on Sanskrit and ethnology to various scientific journals, Winternitz edited the Apastambiya Gṛihyasutra (Vienna, 1887) and the Mantrapaṭha, or the Prayer-Book of the Apastambins (part i, Oxford, 1897); translated Müller's Anthropological Religion and his Theosophy, or Psychological Religion into German (Leipzig, 1894–95); and published Das Altindische Hochzeitsrituell (Vienna, 1892), which also contains valuable ethnological material; A Catalogue of South Indian Manuscripts Belonging to the

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1902); and Geschichte der Indischen Literatur (part i, Leipzig, 1905). He also published expansive studies of Indian literature, publishing a two-volume book on the same.[6]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0838642085
    , page 107
  2. ^ a b Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia: Talmud-Zweifel, p. 536, at Google Books, Volume XII, Article on Winternitz, Moriz
  3. ISBN 978-9004303843
    , page 286
  4. ISBN 978-0520228214
    , page 5-6
  5. ISBN 978-1409440123, pages 79-80 with footnote 2, 81 with footnote 10, Text link1, Text link2, Text link3
  6. ^
    JSTOR 41688364
    .
  7. ^ "Moriz Winternitz (1863-1937". Great Personalities. Visva Bharati. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Gray, Louis H. (1906). "Moriz Winternitz". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. XII. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 536.

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