Karl Friedrich Geldner

Karl Friedrich Geldner ( born December 17, 1852 in Saalfeld / Saale, Thuringia, † February 5, 1929 in Marburg, Hesse ) was a German Orientalist, professor and author.

Life and work

He studied in Leipzig and Tübingen Avesta and Sanskrit and was built in 1887 professor in Halle ( Saale). In 1890 he took over as successor to Hermann Oldenberg the Chair of Indology in Berlin and taught from 1907 at the University of Marburg, where he worked until his death.

Geldner devoted himself at first especially Avesta studies brought to the evaluation of numerous manuscripts out a new critical edition of the ancient Iranian journals and presented some translations found as well as the text edition due to their excellent quality of much attention in the professional world.

During his time in Halle, he established a friendship with Richard Pischel (1849-1908) and brought with him the first volume of Vedic studies out in the special position of the Rigveda has been worked out to be very old and significant work of the Indian mind.

1908 took over Geldner in Alfred Bertholets work Religion History reader contributions to Avesta and Vedism. In addition, he led the Adolf Friedrich Stenzler started elementary book of Sanskrit language further and devoted himself during the First World War and in the aftermath of a complete translation of the Rig Veda. The first volume was published in 1923 in Göttingen, the complete German text in four volumes in 1951 in the Harvard Oriental Series (Vol. 33-36). A complete edition in two volumes was published in 2008 in Wiesbaden.

Awards

  • Award of the Bopp -Stiftung, 1881

Works (selection)

  • Metric of the younger Avesta, 1877
  • Studies on the Avesta, 1882
  • Three Yasht from the Zend-Avesta, 1884
  • Avesta - The sacred books of the Parsees, in German and English, 3 volumes, 1885-1895
  • Avestaliteratur in: Floor plan of the Iranian philology, edited by Kuhn and Geiger
  • Seventy Heder of the Rigveda, along with Roth and Kaegi, 1875
  • Vedic studies, together with Pischel; 3 volumes, 1889-1901
  • The Rigveda in selection, 1907
  • Rig- Veda: The Sacred Knowledge of India, 1923, complete translation, reprinted by Peter Michel, Marix -Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86539-165-0.
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