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Walter Slaje (born 17 June 1954 in Graz) is an Austrian Indologist.
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Walter Slaje | |
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| Born | 17 June 1954 |
| Occupation | Indologist |
Walter Slaje (born 17 June 1954 in Graz) is an Austrian Indologist.
From 1984 to 1995, Slaje was employed at the University Library of Graz as a subject specialist for Oriental Languages and Cultures and as head of the collection of scientific estates. He studied Indology, Tibetology and Buddhism at the University of Vienna, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1983. After a stay as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg (1989-1991), he completed his habilitation in Indology at the University of Vienna in 1993. In the same year he was awarded the Kardinal Innitzer Advancement Prize for the Humanities. From October 1995 until his retirement in September 2019, he taught as tenured full professor of Indology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 2000, he was elected to the Administrative Board of the Helmuth von Glasenapp Foundation (Mainz), which he has chaired since 2020. In 2002 he was elected Corresponding Member and in 2010 Full Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Until its closure (2020) he acted as Director of the Centre for Historiography and Intellectual Culture of Kashmir established by the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) at the University of Halle. He was elected chairman of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) from 2012 to 2021. From 1998 to 2009, he was the editor of the Indology section of the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG).
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Paul Nicolai Hartmann was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth-century metaphysicians.
Jonaraja was a Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet. His Dvitīyā Rājataraṅginī is a continuation of Kalhana's Rājataraṅginī and brings the chronicle of the kings of Kashmir down to the time of the author's patron Zain-ul-Abidin. Jonaraja, however, could not complete the history of the patron as he died in the 35th regnal year. His pupil, Śrīvara continued the history and his work, the Tritīyā Rājataraṅginī, covers the period 1459–86.
Shrivara [Śrīvara] wrote a work on the history of Kashmir that adds to the previous works of Kalhana and Jonaraja, thereby providing an update of the history of Kashmir till 1486 CE. Śrīvara served at the courts of the four Šāhmīrī Sulṭāns Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, Ḥaydar Šāh, Ḥasan Šāh and Maḥmūd Šāh until 1486, when Fatḥ Šāh took power for the first time. Holding this office since 1459, Śrīvara concentrated on writing the history he had personally witnessed. Unlike his predecessors Kalhaṇa and Jonarāja, who had completed the history of Kashmir in retrospect and continued it up to their respective times, Śrīvara, as a contemporary historian, was left with only occasional retrospective additions going back to 1451. His accounts, the Jaina- and Rājataraṅgiṇīs, written as an eyewitness, are characterised by a remarkably detailed density that hardly leaves out any aspect of his coeval horizon of observation and reflection on everyday Kashmiri culture, court life, politics, religion and society. The consolidation of the religious and political influence of a group of Sayyids, who had migrated from Baihaq in Iran under earlier Šāhmīrī Sulṭāns such as Sikandar, and the dynamics triggered by their attempts under Ḥasan Šāh and Maḥmūd Šāh to participate in the reign, culminated in a devastating civil war between factions of indigenous Kashmiris (kāśmīrika) and the immigrants from abroad. These events are of particular research interest for tracing the historical ramifications of the Islamisation process in Kashmir. In terms of richness of detail of everyday culture also in its material aspects, Śrīvara’s work is by far the most abundant source on Indo-Persian rule in early modern India and the living conditions under omnipresent threats of famines, natural disasters and warfare. Śrīvara’s work breaks off with Maḥmūd Šāh’s (first) dethronement followed by Fatḥ Šāh’s ascension to the throne. The abrupt end of his account was however not caused by Śrīvara’s death. Nineteen years later we hear from him again in the prelude to his Sanskrit translation of Jāmi’s (1414–1492) Persian Yusof o Zoleykhā, entitled the Kathākautuka. Śrīvara dated his prologue April 18, 1505. The sudden interruption of Śrīvara’s Rājataraṅgiṇī, coinciding with the transition of power in 1486, should therefore be sought in his removal from the position of court biographer. Śrīvara had completed his Sanskrit rendering of Jāmi’s Persian composition (1483) only twenty-two years after its publication in Herat.
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Paul Zanker is the Professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously he was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of Göttingen (1972–1976). He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Sather Professor of the University of California at Berkeley. Zanker is head of the German Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.
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