Bernhard Kölver

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Kölver, B.

PersonType Category:Editors
Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst Bernhard
LastName / namelast Kölver
MainNamePhon Bernhard Kölver
SortName Kölver, Bernhard
bio Bernhard Kölver (1938 – 2001) was a German Indologist, specializing for most of his career in the study of Nepal.

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

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]. He was also awarded the Triśaktipaṭṭabhūṣaṇa by King Birendra of Nepal in honor of his service to scholarship. (Source Accessed Aug 21, 2023)

YearBirth 1938
YearDeath 2001
BornIn Cologne
associatedwebsite https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/institut-fuer-indologie-und-zentralasienwissenschaften/institut/institutsgeschichte
phduniversity Cologne University
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