Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897,

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– February 25, 1985,

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orientalist and

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. He was a pupil of German indologist

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. He taught at

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and began teaching at the

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in 1936. Waldschmidt joined the

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in May 1937 and became a member of the

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in 1939.Anikó Szabó: Vertreibung, Rückkehr, Wiedergutmachung - Göttinger Hochschullehrer im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus'', 2000 He was a specialist on

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, and archaeology of

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and

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. He also founded Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt.

Literary works

* ''Buddhistische Kunst in Indien'', 1932 * ''Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien'' (the 7th Volume), 1933 * ''Gandhara, Kutscha, Turfan'', 1925 * ''Die Überlieferung vom Lebensende des Buddha'', 2 Vols., 1944-1948

References

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External links

* http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/galeria/waldschm.htm (pictures) * https://archive.today/20120906182336/http://www.indologie.uni-goettingen.de/cms/index.php?id=13 1897 births 1985 deaths People from Lünen German orientalists Nazi Party politicians People from the Province of Westphalia History of Buddhism German Indologists Indologists Archaeologists from North Rhine-Westphalia German male non-fiction writers Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin {{Germany-archaeologist-stub