{{Short description|Swiss Indologist}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{birth date|1859|4|11|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1931|4|24|1859|4|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Berg, Switzerland | death_place = Freiburg, Germany | occupation = Linguist, Jainologist }}
'''Ernst Leumann''' (11 April 1859 – 24 April 1931)<ref name=ELD1>{{cite book | title= Zur Erinnerung an Prof. Dr. Ernst Leumann, geb. 11. April 1859, gest. 24. April 1931 |author=Manu Leumann |publisher=Buchdr. Berichthaus|date=1931}}</ref> was a Swiss Indologist and a pioneer of the research into Jainism and the languages of Turkestan<ref name=ELD2>{{cite web| title= Ernst Leumann |url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D44654.php | publisher=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz |author= Andreas Bigger}}</ref> whose work is in consideration even today.<ref name=HEUT1>{{citation|surname1=Ernst Leumann|editor-surname1= Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology|title=An outline of the Āvaśyaka literature: Vorwort von Nalini Balbir|location=Ahmedabad|isbn=978-81-8585-732-9|date=2010|orig-year=1934 Hamburg|trans-title=Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur|language=German|others=George Baumann (trans.) }}</ref>
==Early life== Ernst Leumann was born in Berg, a village in the Canton of Thurgau, on the 11th of April 1859. While in school, he developed an interest in linguistics through his Latin teacher Friedrich Haag, who later went on to become a professor at the University of Berne.
During the course of his studies, he relocated – after two terms in Geneva and Zürich (1877-78) – in autumn 1878 to Leipzig.<ref>{{cite web |title=Erns Leumann |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-iranica-online/leumann-ernst-COM_362544 |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica Online |date=29 June 2021 |publisher=Brill}}</ref>
==Career== His studies on linguistics in Zürich and Geneva and of Sanskrit in Leipzig and Berlin were followed by his doctorate in 1881 in Strasbourg. His dissertation was {{lang|de|Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Sanskritsprache}} {{in lang|de}} (''Etymological Dictionary of the Sanskrit Language'').<ref name=PRO1>{{LCCN|99939999}}</ref>
1882–84 working on ''Sanskrit-English Dictionary'' in Oxford.<ref group=N name=SED1>Monier-Williams: Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1899</ref><br /> 1884 Professor in Frauenfeld (Schweiz).<br /> 1884 Professor of Sanskrit at University Strasbourg. In 1909–10 he was dean.<br /> 1919 became honorary professor in Freiburg.<ref group=N name=GRU1>Ernst Leumann had to leave Strasbourg after World War I when Strasbourg became French territory again</ref>
==Publications== ===Author=== *Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens (Relations of Jain literature to other literature of India) {{in lang|de}}<ref name=LEL11>{{cite book| title=Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens|publisher= E.J. Brill |location= Leiden |date=1885 |language=de |trans-title=Relations of Jain literature to other literature of India |lccn=ltf91052809}}</ref> *Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar (Overview on Āvaśyaka literature, glossary) {{in lang|de}}<ref name=ELP1>{{cite book| title= Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar |date= 1934 |language=de |trans-title=Overview on Āvaśyaka literature, glossary}}</ref> *Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar {{in lang|de}} (Aupapâtika Sûtra, the first jain Upânga : part 1, introduction, text and glossary)<ref name=ELP0>{{cite book| title= Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar |author= Ernst Leumann | orig-year =18883| publisher=Hansebooks |date= October 2016| isbn= 9783743360419|language=de }}</ref> *Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien {{in lang|de}} (The Nun, A new Tale from Old India)<ref name=ELP5>{{cite book| title= Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien (Übers.)| author= Ernst Leumann | location=München-Neubiberg |publisher=Oskar Schloss Verlag| date= 1921 |language=de}}</ref>
===Editor=== Series ''Indica''.
===Posthumous publications=== * {{cite book |author= Ernst Leumann |title=Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur. Aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Walther Schubring |location= Hamburg |date= 1934 |language=de |trans-title=Overview about the Avasyaka Literature. Published by the estate of Walther Schubring.}} * {{cite book| title= Kleine Schriften |author= Ernst Leumann |location=Stuttgart |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |date=1998 |isbn= 9-783-4470-4882-8 |language=de |trans-title=Small Writings |editor=Nalini Balbir}}
==Literature== * Catalogue of the Papers of Ernst Leumann in the Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg {{in lang|de}}<ref name=ELP6>{{cite book| title= Alt- und Neuindische Studien |trans-title=Old and new Indian studies |editor=Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg |publisher=Franz Steiner-Verlag |location=Stuttgart |date=1998 | author=Birte Plutat |issn=0170-3242 |chapter= Ernst Leumann Liste von transcrib. Abschriften und Auszügen e.c.t.| isbn=3515070966 }}</ref> * <ref name=ELP7>{{cite journal |script-title=ja:恩師ロイマン教授 |trans-title= Prof. Dr. Ernst Leumann |year= 1931 |language=ja |journal=Mikkyou Kenkyuu |publisher=Association of Esoteric Buddhist Studies | volume= 42 |pages= 122–151 |issn= 1884-3441 |doi=10.11168/jeb1918.1931.42_122 |last1= 藤田 |first1= 眞道 }}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|India|Religion|Language|Turkmenistan}} * Sanskrit verbs
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