Moriz Winternitz (1863–1937) was an Austrian Indologist who studied in the 1880s as a student of Bühler at the University of Vienna. He is especially famous for his monumental work “A History of Indian Literature” in three volumes. The lecture explores Winternitz’s achievements and attempts to project his world of thought which he derived from his cultivation of Indological studies. Above all, it puts on view his association with Rabindranath
Tagore (1861–1941) and his co-workers at the International University of Shantiniketan, Bengal, where Winternitz taught for about a year and met numerous scholars with whom he exchanged ideas. The lecture also addresses aspects of the personal involvement of the speaker who spent much of his life studying Winternitz and translating his writings, and witnessed his continuing influence on the elites of Bengal.
Moriz Winternitz: Dots of Light
09.11.2007 15:15
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