Ernst Leumann


Ernst Leumann was a Swiss Indologist and a pioneer of the research into Jainism and the languages of Turkestan whose work is in consideration even today.

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 – in autumn 1878 to Leipzig.

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 .
1882–84 working on Sanskrit-English Dictionary in Oxford.

1884 Professor in Frauenfeld.

1884 Professor of Sanskrit at University Strasbourg. In 1909–10 he was dean.

1919 became honorary professor in Freiburg.

Publications

Author

  • Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens
  • Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar
  • Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar
  • Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien

    Editor

Series Indica.

Posthumous publications

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