01-24-2006, 06:30 PM
Michael E. J. Witzel (born 1943)
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Dr. Phil. (Erlangen 1972), is Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Chair of the Committee on South Asian Studies at Harvard University.
He has been teaching Sanskrit since 1972. In 1972-1977 he was the Director of the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project.
He has written some sixty articles (in German, English, French, and Japanese) on Vedic, Old-Iranian, Nepalese Studies and Indian History. His major publications include: Das Katha-Aranyaka. Textkritische Edition mit Ubersetzung und Kommentar (Erlan gen/Kathmandu 1972); On Magical Thought in the Veda (Leiden 1979); On the Localization of Vedic Texts and Schools (in G. Pollet ed., India and the Ancient World, Leuven 1987); Tracing the Vedic Dialects (in C. Caillat ed., D ialects dans les litteratures indo-aryennes, Paris 1989); The Kashmiri Brahmins (in Y. Ikari ed., Studies on the Nilamata-Purana, Kyoto 1995). He is the the Editor of several journals and books; among them, he is the Editor of the Har vard Oriental Series. He is the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Tantric Studies and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies.
He is currently engaged in writing a book on A Social History of Brahmins of Kashmir up to Contemporary Times: their Vedic and Tantric Literature, Ritual, and Customs together with Dott. E. Garzilli.
E-Mail:
witzel@fas.harvard.edu
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Dr. Phil. (Erlangen 1972), is Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Chair of the Committee on South Asian Studies at Harvard University.
He has been teaching Sanskrit since 1972. In 1972-1977 he was the Director of the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project.
He has written some sixty articles (in German, English, French, and Japanese) on Vedic, Old-Iranian, Nepalese Studies and Indian History. His major publications include: Das Katha-Aranyaka. Textkritische Edition mit Ubersetzung und Kommentar (Erlan gen/Kathmandu 1972); On Magical Thought in the Veda (Leiden 1979); On the Localization of Vedic Texts and Schools (in G. Pollet ed., India and the Ancient World, Leuven 1987); Tracing the Vedic Dialects (in C. Caillat ed., D ialects dans les litteratures indo-aryennes, Paris 1989); The Kashmiri Brahmins (in Y. Ikari ed., Studies on the Nilamata-Purana, Kyoto 1995). He is the the Editor of several journals and books; among them, he is the Editor of the Har vard Oriental Series. He is the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Tantric Studies and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies.
He is currently engaged in writing a book on A Social History of Brahmins of Kashmir up to Contemporary Times: their Vedic and Tantric Literature, Ritual, and Customs together with Dott. E. Garzilli.
E-Mail:
witzel@fas.harvard.edu