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H.W. Schumann
Hans Wolfgang Schumann (born 31 January 1928 in Düsseldorf, Germany; died 26 June 2019 in Bonn) was a German diplomat as well as an Indologist and Buddhologist. Life After an apprenticeship as a book publisher, Schumann studied Indology, religious studies, ethnology, comparative religions and social anthropology at the University of Bonn in 1951. In 1957 he received his Ph.D. degree for a thesis on Buddhist philosophy, while there he worked under Gustav Mensching in the subject of Indology with an investigation into the ''Bedeutung und Bedeutungsentwicklung des Terminus Samkhara im frühen Buddhismus (Meaning and development of the meaning of the term Samkhara in early Buddhism)''. From 1960 to 1963 he worked as a lecturer at the Banaras Hindu University in India. In 1963, he had joined the Foreign services of the Federal Republic of Germany and served in consular and diplomatic capacities at the West German missions such as Kolkata Indian, Yangon Myanmar, Chicago US and Colomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a population of 617,280. Düsseldorf is located at the confluence of two rivers: the Rhine and the Düssel, a small tributary. The ''-dorf'' suffix means "village" in German (English cognate: ''thorp''); its use is unusual for a settlement as large as Düsseldorf. Most of the city lies on the right bank of the Rhine. Düsseldorf lies in the centre of both the Rhine-Ruhr and the Rhineland Metropolitan Region. It neighbours the Cologne Bonn Region to the south and the Ruhr to the north. It is the largest city in the German Low Franconian dialect area (closely related to Dutch). Mercer's 2012 Quality of Living survey ranked Düsseldorf the sixth most livable city in the world. Düsse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
