German Indology

[Max.Nihom at oeaw.ac.at]

>
>Thanks to Gabriele Zeller for describing the book 'German Indology'
>clearly.  
>
>I was very startled when I first saw this little book some years ago. 
>Such a production in the United Kingdom would be quite beyond the pale. 
>It wouldn't be a problem listing the Oriental Institutes in Britain, say,
>but to go further and list the details of all British-born scholars
>working elsewhere in the world just on the basis of their nationality
>would be felt to be distasteful, to say the least.
>
>To do "German Indology" credit, it does list Emmerick in Hamburg, in spite
>of his Australian nationality (at least I assume he still holds an ozzie
>passport).  But this goes against the spirit of the booklet.
>
>All the best,
>Dominik
>
>--
>Dominik Wujastyk               Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
>email: d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk          183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England
><URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/>                    FAX: 44 171 611 8545
>

It could have been worse. They might have called it 'Germanic Indology'.


Max Nihom
Vienna