Bernhard Kölver

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Bernhard Kölver (1938 – 2001) was a German Indologist, specializing for most of his career in the study of Nepal.[1]

Kölver was born in Cologne, Germany.[2] He received his PhD with a dissertation on Tokharian nominal morphology from Cologne University in 1965.[1] He was professor of Indology in Kiel, Germany (1974-1993) and Leipzig, Germany (1993-).[1]

After a trip to Nepal Kölver specialized in the study of this country, especially the Newar language. In 1995 he was elected to the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzi].[3] He was also awarded the Triśaktipaṭṭabhūṣaṇa by King Birendra of Nepal in honor of his service to scholarship.[1]

Works[edit]

  • Kölver, Bernhard 1969. Tulu texts, with glossary. Dravidian tales from the south of India. Publisher: Wiesbaden, F. Steiner, 1969.
  • Kölver, Bernhard (1971). Textkritische und philologische Untersuchungen zur Rājataraṅgiṇī des Kalhana. Wiesbaden : F. Steiner, 1971.
  • Kölver, Ulrike and Bernhard Kölver 1975. 'On Newari noun inflection.' Zentralasiaticshe Studien, 9:87-117. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
  • Kölver, Ulrike and Bernhard Kölver 1978. 'Classical Newari verbal morphology." Zentralasiaticshe Studien 12: 273-316. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
  • Kölver, Bernhard, and Hem Raj Shakya 1985. Documents from the Rudravarṇa-Mahāvihāra, Pāṭan. Sankt Augustin, VGH Wissenshaftsverlag.
  • Gutschow, Niels, Bernhard Kölver, and Ishwaranand Shresthacarya 1987. Newar towns and buildings: an illustrated dictionary Newārī-English. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag, 1987.
  • Kölver, Bernhard 1992. Re-building a stūpa: architectural drawings of the Svayaṃbhūnāth. Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.
  • Kölver, Bernhard 1996. Constructing pagodas according to traditional Nepalese drawings. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Alexander von Rospatt. "Bernhard Kölver (1938–2001)." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Vol. 159, No. 1 (2009), pp. 5-14
  2. ^ "Indologica Taurinensia". Volume 28. Istituto di Indologia. 2002. p. 302. Retrieved 15 May 2016. (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Bernhard Kölver, Prof. Dr. Phil. Habil. — Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften".
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