Moriz Winternitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Moriz Winternitz

Austrian Indologist

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1863

Place of Birth: Horn, Lower Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1937

Profession: ethnologist, university teacher, Indologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Moriz Winternitz (Horn, December 23, 1863 – Prague, January 9, 1937) was a Jewish scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max Müller at the Oxford University.
An eminent Sanskrit scholar, he worked as a professor in Prague in the German part of Karl-Ferdinands-Universität after 1902, for nearly thirty years.
His Geschichte der indischen Literatur over 1908-1922 period was a major and comprehensive literary history of Sanskrit texts.
The contributions on a wide range of Sanskrit texts by Winternitz have been an influential resource for modern era studies on Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.