Paul Thieme

 ( Scientists From Berlin ) 

Paul Thieme (; 18 March 1905 – 24 April 2001) was a German Indologist

and scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. In 1988 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".

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Selected bibliography

• 1929: Das Plusquamperfektum im Veda (Diss. Göttingen 1928).
• 1935: Panini and the Veda. Studies in the Early History of Linguistic Science in India. Allahabad
• 1938: Der Fremdling im Rigveda. Eine Studie über die Bedeutung der Worte ari, arya, aryaman und aarya, Leipzig.

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External links

• Paul Thieme at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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