Erich Frauwallner

Erich Frauwallner ( born December 28, 1898 in Vienna, † July 5, 1974 ) was an Austrian Indologist and pioneer in the field of Buddhist Studies European and Indian history of philosophy.

Career

Frauwallner studied classical philology in Vienna and was also involved in Sanskrit philology. In 1927 he became a professor in "Indian philology and archeology " and worked from 1928/29, at the University of Vienna in the teaching field of Indology. He has written important, close to the source material -oriented writings on Buddhist logic and epistemology, and later to Brahmin Indian philosophy. His main work, the two-volume History of Indian Philosophy (1953-1956) are considered.

1938, Frauwallner after the dismissal and expulsion of the Jewish Associate Professor Bernhard Geiger its Office of Indian and Iranian philology at the Oriental Institute. He became in 1942 Director of the Institute. After he was called up for military service in the spring of 1943, the Indological doctrine was suspended until the war ended in 1945.

Frauwallner was initially dismissed because of his membership in the Nazi Party (from 1932) and his body was represented initially by the German lecturer Herbert V. Guenther, 1951 by the Austrian lecturer Karl Ammer. In the same year Frauwallner received after an assessment of his person by the Personnel Committee of the University of the teaching license from the Ministry of Education back and could again be active at the Oriental Institute. 1955 he was appointed extraordinary professor of Indology. At the same time founded the "Institute of Indology ", over which he presided. In 1960 he was finally full professor.

Works

  • Erich Frauwallner, history of Indian philosophy - I, Shaker 2003, ISBN 3832210768.
  • Erich Frauwallner, History of Indian Philosophy - II, Shaker 2003, ISBN 383222226X.
  • Mrs Wallner, E. The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature, 1956
  • Erich Frauwallner, The Philosophy of Buddhism, Akademie Verlag, 2010
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