Siegfried Lienhard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Siegfried Lienhard

Austrian Indologist

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1924

Place of Birth: Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria

Date of Death: 06-Mar-2011

Profession: university teacher, Indologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Siegfried Lienhard (29 August 1924, in Sankt Veit an der Glan – 6 March 2011) was a professor of Indology at Stockholm University and a scholar of Sanskrit and the Newar language.He published on the history of poetry in South Asia, as well as a catalogue of the Newar manuscripts held in the State Library of Berlin, a collection of Newar folk songs, and textual studies of classical Newar texts.
In 1995 his students and colleagues published a Festschrift in his honour.
In 2007 Oskar von Hinueber edited the collected minor writings of Siegfried Lienhard.