Professor of Indology
and Tibetology
at the Philipps-University
of Marburg, Germany
Address:
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Office:
FG Indologie und Tibetologie
Fachbereich “Fremdsprachliche Philologien”
Philipps-Universität
Wilhelm-Roepke-Str. 6F
D-35032 Marburg, Germany
Tel.: 0049 6421 282 4740
Fax: 0049 6421 282 4995
E-mail: hahnm@staff.uni-marburg.de
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Residence:
Ritterstr. 14
D-35287 Amöneburg
Germany
Tel.: 0049 6422 938963
Fax: 0049 6422 938967
E-mail: hahn.m@t-online.de
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Curriculum vitae
Date and place of birth:
| born 7.5.1941 in Otterndorf, Northern Germany. |
Academic career:
studied at the universities of Göttingen, Marburg and Bonn;
1960-1964 science, psychology and musicology (B.A. in psychology in 1964);
1960-1965 Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian under Gustav Roth, Ernst
Waldschmidt, Wilhelm Rau, Claus Vogel and Walter Heissig;
1967 Ph. D. at
the University of Marburg with a thesis on Jnanasrimitra’s metrical treatise
Vrttamalastuti;
1968-1972 assistant professor at the University of Hamburg
under Ludwig Alsorf and Franz Bernhard;
1972 D. Litt. with a second thesis
on Candragomin’s Buddhist play Lokanandanataka;
1972 assistant professor
and reader at the University of Bonn;
1982 promotion to associate professor;
1.10.1988 full professor at the University of Marburg. |
Temporary appointments:
1976-1980 visiting professor of Tibetan at the University of Marburg;
1978-1979 local director of the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project
in Kathmandu, Nepal;
1981 research fellow at the Reiyukai Library (later:
The International Institute for Buddhist Studies; now: The International College
for Buddhist Studies);
1984-5 visiting professor at the Waseda University,
Tokyo;
1991 holder of the Numata Chair of Buddhist Studies at the University
of Calgary, Canada;
2001 holder of the Numata Chair of Buddhist Studies at the University
of London, England;
2005 holder of the Numata Chair of Buddhist Studies at the University
of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. |
Main fields of research:
| Classical Sanskrit literature (ornate poetry, drama, didactic literature);
Indian metric; Buddhist literature (Madhyamaka philosophy, didactic works,
narrative literature); Tibetan linguistics and literature; Mongolian and Chinese
translations of the Indian Buddhist literature. |
Other activities:
| Participation in numerous national and international conferences; guest
lectures at various universities and institutes; about 100 papers or lectures
read at these occasions. |
Editorship:
| Editor and publisher of the series Indica
et Tibetica; 48 vols. published between 1982 and 2006; co-editor of several
other series. |
Supervision of theses:
| 11 M.A. theses and 15 Ph.D. theses on various indological and tibetological
topics between 1974 and 2006. |
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