Condolences to his family, colleagues and students...

I look forward to reading an overview of his life and publications.

It is perhaps not well known that in the early nineteen sixties he was a successor to van Buitenen for whom Jan Gonda had created a position to teach Indian philosophy at Utrecht. J.A.B. van Buitenen occupied that position till 1961 when he was appointed at Chicago University.

Around that time the young G.R.F. Oberhammer was appointed at Utrecht University to teach Indian philosophy as "wetenschappelijk hoofdambtenaar" perhaps equivalent to Associate Professor or Senior Lecturer. He occupied that position till 1964, when he was appointed Professor in Indian Philosophy at the University of Vienna as successor of Erich Frauwallner. As far as I remember his wife was Dutch, from the city of Roermond.

Jan Houben

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 12:18, Rastelli, Marion via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I wish to inform you that Professor Gerhard Oberhammer passed away in Innsbruck (Austria) on 22 December 2025.

Marion Rastelli

Mag.Dr. Marion Rastelli

Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia

Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Phone +43 1 51581 6417

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