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Paul Thieme (1905-2001) was a scholar of
Vedic Sanskrit. He received his doctorate in
Indology in
1928 in
Göttingen, and habilitated there in
1932. From 1932 to 1935 he taught German and French at the University of
Allahabad. He taught at
Breslau from 1936 to 1940, and reveived tenure at
Halle in
1941, but in the same year he was drafted to the German army, where he worked as an interpreter. In 1945, he was captured by U.S. troops in
Württemberg. After his release in 1946, he returned to Halle, where he remained until 1953, when he moved to
Frankfurt for a professorship in
Indo-European studies, against the will of the
GDR authorities. From
1954 to
1960 he was in
Yale, and from 1960 to his retirement in
1972 in
Tübingen as professor for
Religious studies and Indology.
Thieme is considered one of the "last great Indologists", advancing all aspects of the philology of
Sanskrit, with expertise reaching from the
Vedas to the
Epics and the
Upanishads, Sanskrit poetry and traditional Hindu science (
shastra), and Indian grammarians (
Panini and his commentators). Thieme was also a
comparative linguist, studying
Iranian and Indo-European languages in general. Thieme was fluent in Sanskrit, and therefore respected among traditional Indian scholars, holding the inauguration speech at the first
World Sanskrit Conference in
Delhi in 1971-1972.
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.
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