Richard Pischel
Richard Pischel ( born January 18, 1849 in Breslau, † December 26, 1908 in Madras, India) was from 1885 to 1902 Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Indology at the University of Halle.
Life
Born in Breslau in 1849 Richard Pischel attended from 1858 until graduation in 1867 to Mary Magdalene School in his native city. He then studied Indology at the University of Breslau, where he in 1870 his doctorate at Adolf Friedrich Stenzler took off with an investigation into the reviews of Sakuntala of Kalidasa and later presented his habilitation on the Prakrit grammarians.
1875 followed Pischel the chair at the University of Kiel. There he published the Sakuntala by the Bengali review and text editions of the Prakrit grammarian Hemacandra.
Ten years later he was appointed to succeed at the University of Halle. Here he worked closely with Karl Friedrich Geldner together in the field of Vedic studies. From 1886 to 1902 Richard Pischel was also Managing Director and Librarian of the German Oriental Society.
In 1900 he published the "grammar of the Prakrit languages " and became the Rector of the University of Halle appointed. Two years later, Pischel succeeds Albrecht Weber for the Chair of Indian Studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. There he prepared the Prussian Turfan expeditions and assisted with his students their evaluation. He lived at that time in the heart of the New West Berlin in the Passau Straße.1907 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1908 Richard Pischel at the invitation of the University of Calcutta to a series of lectures on the medium- Indo-Aryan languages , but he died on arrival in Madras. The University of Calcutta honored him equally by the purchase of his private library, as well as with the Pischel Memorial Hall today.
Student
- Dr. Friedrich Schrader (1865-1922) PhD, 1889, translation of Karmapradipa ( Part I. ), later deputy chief editor of the German daily newspaper Istanbul Ottoman Lloyd ( 1908-1917 ), lived from 1891 in Istanbul.
- Dr. Baron Alexander von Staël -Holstein (1877-1937) PhD 1900, translation of Karmapradipa (Part II ), later Professor of Indology, Tibetology, and Chinese phonetics at the University of Beijing, where he worked from 1918.