Ernst Leumann

Ernst Leumann (11 April 1859 – 24 April 1931)^[1] was a Swiss Indologist and a pioneer of the research into Jainism and the languages of Turkestan^[2] whose work is in consideration even today.^[3]

Ernst Leumann
Born	(1859-04-11)11 April 1859 Berg, Switzerland
Died	24 April 1931(1931-04-24) (aged 72) Freiburg, Germany
Occupation(s)	Linguist, Jainologist

Early life

Ernst Leumann was born in Berg, a village in the Canton of Thurgau, on the 11th of April 1859. While in school, he developed an interest in linguistics through his Latin teacher Friedrich Haag, who later went on to become a professor at the University of Berne.

During the course of his studies, he relocated – after two terms in Geneva and Zürich (1877-78) – in autumn 1878 to Leipzig.^[4]

Career

His studies on linguistics in Zürich and Geneva and of Sanskrit in Leipzig and Berlin were followed by his doctorate in 1881 in Strasbourg. His dissertation was Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Sanskritsprache (in German) (Etymological Dictionary of the Sanskrit Language).^[5]

1882–84 working on Sanskrit-English Dictionary in Oxford.^{[N 1]}
1884 Professor in Frauenfeld (Schweiz).
1884 Professor of Sanskrit at University Strasbourg. In 1909–10 he was dean.
1919 became honorary professor in Freiburg.^{[N 2]}

Publications

Author

• Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens (Relations of Jain literature to other literature of India) (in German)^[6]
• Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar (Overview on Āvaśyaka literature, glossary) (in German)^[7]
• Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar (in German) (Aupapâtika Sûtra, the first jain Upânga : part 1, introduction, text and glossary)^[8]
• Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien (in German) (The Nun, A new Tale from Old India)^[9]

Editor

Series Indica.

Posthumous publications

• Ernst Leumann (1934). Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur. Aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Walther Schubring [Overview about the Avasyaka Literature. Published by the estate of Walther Schubring.] (in German). Hamburg.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ernst Leumann (1998). Nalini Balbir (ed.). Kleine Schriften [Small Writings] (in German). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 9-783-4470-4882-8.

Literature

• Catalogue of the Papers of Ernst Leumann in the Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg (in German)^[10]
• ^[11]

See also

• India portal
• Religion portal
• Language portal
• Turkmenistan portal

• Sanskrit verbs

Notes

1. Monier-Williams: Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1899
2. Ernst Leumann had to leave Strasbourg after World War I when Strasbourg became French territory again

References

1. Manu Leumann (1931). Zur Erinnerung an Prof. Dr. Ernst Leumann, geb. 11. April 1859, gest. 24. April 1931. Buchdr. Berichthaus.
2. Andreas Bigger. "Ernst Leumann". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
3. Ernst Leumann (2010) [1934 Hamburg], Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology (ed.), An outline of the Āvaśyaka literature: Vorwort von Nalini Balbir [Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur] (in German), George Baumann (trans.), Ahmedabad, ISBN 978-81-8585-732-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. "Erns Leumann". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online. Brill. 29 June 2021.
5. LCCN 99-939999
6. Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens [Relations of Jain literature to other literature of India] (in German). Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1885. LCCN ltf91052809.
7. Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar [Overview on Āvaśyaka literature, glossary] (in German). 1934.
8. Ernst Leumann (October 2016) [18883]. Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar (in German). Hansebooks. ISBN 9783743360419.
9. Ernst Leumann (1921). Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien (Übers.) (in German). München-Neubiberg: Oskar Schloss Verlag.
10. Birte Plutat (1998). "Ernst Leumann Liste von transcrib. Abschriften und Auszügen e.c.t.". In Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg (ed.). Alt- und Neuindische Studien [Old and new Indian studies]. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner-Verlag. ISBN 3515070966. ISSN 0170-3242.
11. 藤田, 眞道 (1931). 恩師ロイマン教授 [Prof. Dr. Ernst Leumann]. Mikkyou Kenkyuu (in Japanese). 42. Association of Esoteric Buddhist Studies: 122–151. doi:10.11168/jeb1918.1931.42_122. ISSN 1884-3441.