Steinkellner, E.
| English Phonetics | Ernst Steinkellner |
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| Birth: | 1937/10/03 |
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| Place of birth: | Graz, Austria |
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| Website: | https://oeaw.academia.edu/ErnstSteinkellner/Papers |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- University of Vienna
PhD University
- University of Vienna
Education
- 1967 Habilitation for Indology, University of Vienna
- 1963 PhD in Indology, University of Vienna
- 1957 – 1963 University of Vienna
- 1955 – 1957 University of Graz
Biographical Information
Ernst Steinkellner (born 1937) studied Indian philosophy at the University of Vienna under Erich Frauwallner. After a research stay at the University of Pennsylvania (1971–1973), he founded the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, which he headed until the year 2000. He has been involved in projects at the IKGA and its predecessor institutions since 1986. At the beginning of 1998 he succeeded Gerhard Oberhammer as the director of the IKGA, holding this position until 2006. In 2008 Ernst Steinkellner received the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Association.
Most of the projects at the IKGA that Steinkellner initiated and worked on are related to the logico-epistemological tradition of Buddhism. The documentation of this philosophical school dating from the 5th c. CE, especially the works of Dharmakīrti (6th–7th c. CE), represent Steinkellner's most important scholarly achievements. In this context, Steinkellner further developed the historico-philological methods of textual criticism as first introduced by Frauwallner. Steinkellner's interest in the logico-epistemological tradition later led him to doing work on Tibet, where the Buddhist schools of thought within his field of interest are still alive today.
Thanks to Steinkellner, in 2004 the IKGA began to have access to certain photocopies of manuscripts held by the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC) in Beijing. This has made it possible to undertake critical editions of the most important Sanskrit texts in this collection, texts that until 2004 had only been accessible in their Tibetan or Chinese translations. The results of this co-operation are being published in a series founded specially for this purpose, the STTAR. (Source Accessed Jan 8, 2021)
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 1967 Habilitation for Indology, University of Vienna
- 1963 PhD in Indology, University of Vienna
- 1957 – 1963 University of Vienna
- 1955 – 1957 University of Graz
- 1955 Matura at Akademisches Gymnasium, Graz
Career History
- 2007 - Guest Researcher, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1973 – 2006 Full Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Vienna
- 2002 – 2005 Research Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Visiting Professor, Balliol College, University of Oxford
- 1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Kyoto
- 1972 – 1973 Associate Prof. of Indian Philosophy, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 1971 – 1972 Visiting Lecturer in Indic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 1964 – 1971 Lecturer, Department of Indology, University of Vienna
- 1963 – 1972 University Assistant, Department of Indology, University of Vienna
- 1961 – 1963 Research Assistant, Department of Indology, University of Vienna
- 2004 - General Editor, Buddhist Tradition Series (Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi)
- 2003 – 2005 Vice-President, International Association of Buddhist Studies
- 1998 – 2007 Director, Institute of the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1995 – 2008 Chairman, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
- 1995 Convenor, 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Schloß Seggau - Graz
- 1994 – 1998 Director at large, International Association of Buddhist Studies
- 5.1994 – 6.1995 Managing Secretary, phil.-hist. Class, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Co-convenor, VIIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Vienna
- 1989 – 2003 President, The International Tibetological Tennis Society
- 1989 – 1995 Chairman, Publication Committee, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Convenor, 2nd International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna
- 1982 – Editorial Consultant, The Journal of the Tibet Society, Bloomington
- 1982 – 1994 Editor, The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
- 1981 Convenor, Csoma de Körös-Symposium, Velm-Vienna
- 1977 – 2005 Editor, Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde
- 1961 – 1971 Managing editor, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens
Memberships and Awards (selected)
- 2008 Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Community200
- 2007 Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata
- 2004 Great Badge of Honours in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1996 Kardinal Innitzer Valuation Award
- 1993 The Eastern Study Prize, Eastern Institute, Tokyo
- 1989 Corresponding Member, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente
- 1988 Full Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1985 Member of the Commission for Buddhist Studies, Academy of Sciences at Göttingen
- 1978 Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1973 M.A.h.c. University of Pennsylvania
- 1967 Kardinal Innitzer Award
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