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michael witzel home news books videos textual criticism in indology and in european philology during the 19 th and 20 th centuries this paper discusses the post enlightenment development of philology in europe during the 19th 20th centuries particularly in the german speaking areas after several centuries of sustained interest in the graeco roman classics all types of medieval older european and asian literatures became the focus of new textual approaches prominent was an historical and critical approach bolstered by the newly developed mss stemmatics and the new evidence from comparative historical linguistics read more new approaches to the study of vedas the present volume the outcome of an international vedic workshop held at harvard university in june 1989 is now published with kalpa like delay due to many reasons mostly not of my own choice and not necessarily of my own making yet i am sure it still is worthwhile to publish the presentations of some of the leading specialists in the field not just as a record of the workshop but because most of its results are still new and fresh read more the home of the aryans the search for an indo european homeland has taken us some two hundred years by now the discussion can easily be summarized if somewhat facetiously by the homeland is at or close to the homeland of the author of the book in question the same applies mutatis mutandis to the homeland of the indo iranians or arya ārya as they call themselves for this we will have to look a little bit further afield first of all to the urals read more substrate languages in old indo aryan the languages spoken in the northern part ofthe indian subcontinent in prehistoric times have been discussed throughout most ofthis century this concerns the periods ofthe rgveda and ofthe indus or harappan civilization nowadays also called indus sarasvat ̄civilization in some quarters read more aryan and non aryan names in vedic india to describe and interpret the linguistic situation in northern india in the second and the early first millennium b c is a difficult undertaking we cannot yet read and interpret the indus script with any degree of certainty and we do not even know the language s underlying these inscriptions read more page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 featured video teaching profession the assistant professor of indology university tubingen germany 1978 1980 associate professor of sanskrit instituut kern university of leiden the netherlands 1981 1986 professor of sanskrit language and literature university of leiden the netherlands 1986 1987 visiting professor of sanskrit harvard university 1987 harvard university wales professor of sanskrit faculty of arts and sciences harvard university 1997 invitation to become prof of indology and head of the department indology and iranin studies munich university germany declined as to remain at harvard 1999 president association for the study of language in prehistory boston books published the home of the aryans autochthonous aryans indian philology and south asian vedic hinduism das alte indien katha aranyaka the world s mythologies articles by subject agriculture culture evolution natural resources new discoveries pottery raw materials religion seals technology textiles trade writing site viewers 2014 all copy rights reserved copyright michael witzel template sponsored by corporate office which has been featured on yahoo finance bizjournals and ein presswire