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 Trisaktipa??abhu?a?a by King Birendra of Nepal in honor of his service to scholarship.