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1988 In Philosophy
1988 in philosophy Events * Paul Thieme was awarded the 1988 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought". * The Indian philosopher and writer Raja Rao was awarded the 1988 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Publications * Ernst Mayr, ''Toward a New Philosophy of Biology'' (1988) * Stephen Hawking, ''A Brief History of Time'' (1988) * Hans Moravec, ''Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence'' (1988) * Jürgen Habermas, ''Postmetaphysical Thinking'' (1988) Deaths * February 16 - Ye Shengtao (born 1894) * June 23 - Liang Shuming (born 1893) * June 26 - Hans Urs von Balthasar (born 1905) References {{Reflist 1988, Philosophy 20th-century philosophy Philosophy by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Thieme
Paul Thieme (; 18 March 1905 – 24 April 2001) was a German indologist and scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. In 1988 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought". Biography He received his doctorate in Indology in 1928 from the University of Göttingen, and habilitated there in 1932. From 1932 to 1935 he taught German and French at the University of Allahabad. He taught at Breslau from 1936 to 1940, and received tenure at Halle in 1941, but in the same year he was drafted to the German army, where he worked as an interpreter. In 1945, he was captured by U.S. troops in Württemberg. After his release in 1946, he returned to Halle, where he remained until 1953, when he moved to Frankfurt for a professorship in Indo-European studies, against the will of the GDR authorities. From 1954 to 1960 he was in Yale, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |