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Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings and Religion of the Parsis - Martin Haug

Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings and Religion of the Parsis

To which is Also Added a Biographical Memoir of the Late Dr Haug by Professor E. P. Evans

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Buch | Softcover
480 Seiten
2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-05373-0 (ISBN)
CHF 66,30 inkl. MwSt
This third edition (1884) of Martin Haug's groundbreaking study of Zoroastrian history and texts includes further translations and unpublished papers. Haug's knowledge of the languages and practices of the Brahmans and priests with whom he built friendships was unsurpassed in European scholarship, making this a fundamental contribution to oriental studies.
Published in English in 1884, this is the posthumous third edition of an 1862 study by the German orientalist Martin Haug (1827–76). He produced this groundbreaking analysis and comparison of Sanskrit and the Avesta while professor of Sanskrit at the Government College of Poona. His time in India enabled him to make an unprecedented study of Zoroastrian texts, becoming the first to translate the seventeen Gathas into a European language, thereby helping to highlight that they were composed by Zoroaster. Edward William West (1824–1905), an engineer and self-taught orientalist, met Haug in India. Having read this work's first edition, he was inspired to study further the Pahlavi language. On his and Haug's return to Europe in 1866, they worked closely together in translating and publishing Zoroastrian texts. West's edition of Haug's Essays includes several updates, unpublished papers from Haug's collection, appendices of further translations, and a biography of the author.

Preface; Biographical sketch; Introduction to the third edition; 1. History of the researches into the sacred writings and religion of the Parsis; 2. Languages of the Parsi scriptures; 3. The Zend-Avesta, or the scripture of the Parsis; 4. The Zoroastrian religion as to its origin and development; Appendix; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.6.2013
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
Übersetzer Edward William West
Vorwort E. P. Evans
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 610 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 1-108-05373-4 / 1108053734
ISBN-13 978-1-108-05373-0 / 9781108053730
Zustand Neuware
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