Nils Simonsson (1920–1994)
Nils Simonsson (1920–1994)

More than "Indo-Tibetische Studien"

Author(s): Per Kværne
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Indology; Tibetology; Indian philosophy; Indian grammatical theory
Summary/Abstract: The Swedish Indologist and Tibetologist Nils Simonsson (1920–1994) taught as Professor, from 1964 at the University of Oslo, Norway, and from 1975 to 1985 at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. With the exception of his ground-breaking doctoral dissertation, "Indo-tibetische Studien. Die Methoden der tibetischen Übersetzer, untersucht im Hinblick auf die Bedeutung ihrer Übersetzungen für die Sanskritphilologie", Uppsala, 1957, his contribution to Oriental studies has not received the recognition it deserves, as most of his research was published in various journals. Important studies were published in Swedish, for example the "Sāṃkhyakārikā" together with Māṭhara’s commentary in 1955. His scholarly output, invariably the result of careful philological scrutiny, covered a wide range of topics in Indian philosophy and grammatical theory, using Hindu as well as Buddhist sources in several languages, principally Sanskrit and Tibetan, but also Prakrit. This article provides an overview of his entire scholarly production, and attempts to indicate its originality and importance.

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