Heinrich Zimmer

Heinrich Robert Room (December 6, 1890 in Greifswald, † March 20, 1943 in New Rochelle, New York ) was a German Indologist. He was the son of Indologists and scholars of Heinrich Friedrich Room ( 1851-1910 ).

Life and work

Room studied from autumn 1909 in Berlin and German Indology and became his doctorate in 1914 with Heinrich Lüders with studies on the history of gotras. After four years of military service in the First World War in 1919 he continued his studies in Berlin continued, since April 1919 as an assistant at the Oriental Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In July 1920 he habilitated at the University of Greifswald and was there for two years as a lecturer in Indian philology before he accepted a teaching position at the University of Heidelberg in the summer of 1922. In the spring of 1926 where he became a full professor of Indology.

Since 1928 rooms with Christiane, a daughter of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, married. In the wake of the Nazi Racial Laws him his Heidelberg Chair 1938 has been withdrawn because of " non-Aryan Versippung ". In 1939 rooms to England and held at the Oxford University lectures. In 1940 he moved to New York, where he published room under the name of Henry R. and held guest lectures. In March 1943, he died there of pneumonia, a few weeks before a guest chair for Indian Philosophy and Religion at Columbia University would have to take over.

Rooms used personal contacts with many intellectuals of his time, including to Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Emil Nolde, Carl Jacob Burckhardt and CG Jung, who also influenced the room work such as the British scholar John Woodroffe. He held the opening speech of the 1933 first Eranos conference in Ascona, entitled On the importance of the Indian Tantric Yoga.

Room has published numerous writings on Indian philosophy and mythology. In contrast to the strictly philological interpretation of the text of his contemporaries found room for his research subject a more personal and psychological approach.

Heinrich -room Chair

Since 2010, a chair is named after Heinrich Zimmer. The Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History is awarded by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations ( ICCR ) in New Delhi and is both the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", as well as at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University settled. The first owner of this new Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History was the Indian science historian Dhruv Raina. Since May 2011 Heeraman Tiwari holds a chair.

Writings

  • Art form and yoga in the Indian cult image. . Berlin 1926 edition: Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 351801482X.
  • Match for the elephant. A book of Indian nature. 1929th edition: Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3518370197 Contains a translation of Matanga - purple, an ancient Indian elephant customer of Nilakantha. .
  • Maya. The Indian myth. German publishing house, Stuttgart and Berlin 1936.
  • The road to self. Life and teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Rascher, Zurich 1944.
  • Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. . New York 1946 German: Indian myths and symbols. Diederichs, Dusseldorf 1972.
  • Philosophy and Religion of India. Edited by Joseph Campbell. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1961, ISBN 3-518-27626-3.
  • Yoga and Buddhism. Indian spheres. Indel, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3,458,017,453th
  • The Indian World Mother. Essays. Edited by Friedrich Wilhelm, Indel, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3,458,049,673th

Translation

  • Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki: The Great Liberation - Introduction to Zen Buddhism. Weller, Leipzig 1939. Further 14 editions until 2010. With a foreword by CG Jung. Original title: The Great Liberation. Introduction to Zen Buddhism. Eastern Buddhist Society, Kyoto 1934

Werkausgabe

  • Collected Works. Rascher, Zurich & Stuttgart Vol 1: Myths and symbols in Indian art and culture. 1951
  • Vol 2: Maya, the Indian myth. 1952
  • Vol 3: The road to self. Doctrine and life of the Indian saint Shri Ramana Maharshi from Tiruvannamalei. Eds. v. Carl G. Jung. 1954
  • Vol 4: adventures and journeys of the soul. The king with the body and other myths fairy tales and legends of Celtic and Eastern culture areas. Presentation and interpretation. 1961
  • Vol 5: Indian spheres. 1963
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