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Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist. Witzel is the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series (volumes 50–100) Witzel is an authority on Indian sacred texts, particularly the Vedas, and Indian history.
Michael Witzel. Wales Professor of Sanskrit. Department of South Asian Studies (until July 2011: Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies), Harvard University. 1 Bow Street, 3rd fl., Cambridge MA 02138, USA. phones 617 - 496 2990 (direct line) ; 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571. email: witzel@fas.harvard.edu
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.
Michael WITZEL, Wales Professor of Sanskrit | Cited by 1,032 | of Harvard University, MA (Harvard) | Read 72 publications | Contact Michael WITZEL
Wales Professor of Sanskrit. Ancient India, Nepal, and Kashmir; ancient Iran; Central Asia. Late Bronze Age to historical period (up to 600 CE) Areas of Expertise: Vedic language, literature, religion; philology and manuscripts; Nepalese history: inscriptions, texts, rituals; comparative mythology.
Michael Witzel, Harvard University, Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department, Faculty Member.
Michael Witzel, Harvard University, South Asian Studies Department, Faculty Member. Studies South Asian Studies, Ancient Israel, and Akkadian. Indian texts, history, ritual, comparative mythology.
Introduction. In this paper, I partially employ the new theory of historical and comparative mythology that leads to increasingly earlier reconstructions of mythological systems, as laid out in my recent book, The Origins of the World’s Mythologies (2012).
Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts, ed. M. Witzel Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora 2, Cambridge 1997 INTRODUCTION The study of the Veda has been said to be dead already some fifty years ago, for example by my predecessor at Harvard, W.E. Clarke, in his address to the American Oriental Society. So far, to no avail: The Study of
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.
