Siegfried Lienhard (29 August 1924, in

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– 6 March 2011) was a professor of

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and a scholar of Sanskrit and the

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: eview ofSiegfried Lienhard: ''Die Legende vom Prinzen Viśvantara'', 1980. ''Kailash'' 9, 1982
pp. 279–281
He published on the history of poetry in South Asia, as well as a catalogue of the Newar manuscripts held in the State Library of Berlin, a collection of Newar

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, and textual studies of

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texts. In 1995 his students and colleagues published a ''Festschrift'' in his honour. In 2007 Oskar von Hinueber edited the collected minor writings of Siegfried Lienhard.

Bibliography

Books

*(1963). ''Maṇicūḍāvadānoddhṛta: a Buddhist re-birth story in the Nevārī language.'' Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. *(1974). ''Nevārīgītīmañjarī: religious and secular poetry of the Nevars of the Kathmandu Valley.'' Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell international. *(1980). ''Die Legende vom Prinzen Viśvantara. Eine nepalesische Bilderrolle aus der Sammlung des Museums for Indische Kunst Berlin.'' Berlin. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Indische Kunst Berlin, 5. *(1984). ''Songs of Nepal: an anthology of Nevar folksongs and hymns.'' Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. *(1984) ''A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit''. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. *(1988). ''Nepalese manuscripts. part 1, Nevari and Sanskrit'', Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. *(1999). ''Diamantmeister und Hausvater : Buddhistisches Gemeindeleben in Nepal.'' Wien: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Articles

*(2007). ''Kleine Schriften / Siegfried Lienhard.''

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, ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007.

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*''Sauhṛdyamaṅgalam : studies in honour of Siegfried Lienhard on his 70th birthday.'' Mirja Juntunen et al. eds. Stockholm: Association of Oriental Studies, 1995.

References

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