Walter Slaje Explained

Birth Date:17 June 1954
Occupation:Indologist

Walter Slaje (born 17 June 1954 in Graz) is an Austrian Indologist.

Life

From 1984 to 1995, Slaje was employed at the University Library of Graz as a subject specialist for Oriental Languages and Cultures and as head of the collection of scientific estates. He studied Indology, Tibetology and Buddhism at the University of Vienna, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1983. After a stay as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg (1989-1991), he completed his habilitation in Indology at the University of Vienna in 1993. In the same year he was awarded the Kardinal Innitzer Advancement Prize for the Humanities. From October 1995 until his retirement in September 2019, he taught as tenured full professor of Indology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 2000, he was elected to the Administrative Board of the Helmuth von Glasenapp Foundation (Mainz), which he has chaired since 2020. In 2002 he was elected Corresponding Member and in 2010 Full Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Until its closure (2020) he acted as Director of the Centre for Historiography and Intellectual Culture of Kashmir established by the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) at the University of Halle. He was elected chairman of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) from 2012 to 2021. From 1998 to 2009, he was the editor of the Indology section of the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG).

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