Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen is a Research Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the

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and a tutor in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sanskrit at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at

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. His research interests are: Religion,

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, Indic languages (especially

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, Vedic and

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); Śāktism and tantric traditions; ascetic reformism (6th to 2nd century BCE); the Middle Ages in

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and

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;

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and asceticism; Myths and rituals; the history of ideas in South Asia; religious

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. Wernicke-Olesen is the leader of the Śākta Traditions project, an international research project with a focus on Indian religious traditions of South Asia. Wernicke-Olesen is author of the Danish Sanskrit grammar and reader ''Gudernes Sprog: Klassisk sanskrit på dansk.'' This Sanskrit grammar is the first of its type in a Scandinavian language since

Niels Ludvig Westergaard Niels Ludvig Westergaard (27 October 1815 – 9 September 1878) was a Danish Orientalist and professor. Biography Westergaard was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1833, he became a student at Borgerdivskolen in Copenhagen. Westergaard studied Ol ...

's "''Kortfattet Sanskrit Formlære''" in 1846, and was welcomed by professor

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as "a landmark publication in Scandinavian Indology".Gudernes sprog. Klassisk sanskrit på dansk , Forlaget Univers
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Publications

* (2009) ''Bhagavadgītā - Ny dansk oversættelse'' (in Danish). Aarhus: Forlaget Gammelmark. * (2014) ''Gudernes sprog: Klassisk sanskrit på dansk'' (in Danish). 2 vols. Højbjerg: Forlaget Univers. * (2015) ditor''Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism: History, practice and doctrine''. Oxford: Routledge. * (2015) ''Varanasi: Hinduismens brændpunkt'' (in Danish). Aarhus: Systime. * (2017) o-author"Übungswissen in Yoga, Tantra und Asketismus des frühen indischen Mittelalters" (in German), in Almut-Barbara Renger and Alexandra Stellmacher (eds), ''Übungswissen in Religion und Philosophie: Produktion, Weitergabe, Wandel'', pp. 241-257. Berlin: LIT Verlag.

References

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