[Buddha-l] [Fwd: Death of Heinz Bechert]

[Richard P. Hayes]

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Subject: [H-BUDDHISM] NOTICE>Death of Heinz Bechert (Hartmann)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:06:56 -0700
From: "Jens-Uwe Hartmann" <juhartmann at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Death of Heinz Bechert

Dear list-members,

Let me inform you of the sad news that Heinz Bechert, retired Professor
of Indology at the University of Goettingen (Germany), passed away on
June 14. He was an internationally renowned scholar who had
specialized in Theravada Buddhism with a focus on the so-called
Buddhist Modernism. His magnum opus is Buddhismus, Staat und
Gesellschaft in den Laendern des Theravada-Buddhismus (Buddhism,
state and society in the countries of Theravada Buddhism), 3 vols.,
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1966-1973 (reprint of vol. 1: Goettingen
1988; repr. of vol. 2 with supplements and register: Goettingen 2000).

Jens-Uwe Hartmann

Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Department fuer Asienstudien
Institut fuer Indologie und Iranistik
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Muenchen
Germany
Tel. +49-89-2180-5384
Fax +49-89-2180-5827