Wilhelm Siegling
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Wilhelm Siegling (born 14 January 1880 in Erfurt; died 22 January 1946 in Berlin) was a German Indologist and an expert in the Tocharian language family. Siegling was described by Ernst Waldschmidt as the "co-discoverer of the Tocharian" and by de:Emil Sieg as the "best connoisseur of the various varieties of the Brahmi script with Central Asian characteristics".
Early life[edit]
After completing high school in Eisleben, Siegling studied in Halle an der Saale, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Greifswald and Berlin. From 1901 to 1906 he studied Sanskrit, Avestian and Tibetan, and in 1906 completed his PhD.
The Discovery of the Tocharian languages[edit]
Together with the Privatdozent Emil Sieg, Siegling was entrusted, at the suggestion of Professor Richard Pischel, with the evaluation of the manuscript finds made by the German Turfan Expeditions since 1902 which had been left to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin for further processing ("Berlin Collection"). The often fragmentary manuscripts, mostly coming from Buddhist monasteries and therefore predominantly religious in content, dated from the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The manuscripts were written in an Indian Brahmi script and a previously unknown language, which Sieg and Siegling referred to as Tocharian, and which they managed to decipher and translate. This first language that Sieg and Siegling described is now often known as Tocharian A, or Agnean. Siegling did military service from 1915 to 1918, and therefore it was not until 1921 that the first results could be published under the title "Tocharische Sprachreste: Language A. I".[1]
Later life[edit]
As a result of his achievements, Siegling was permanently employed at the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1929 as a Professor. For the remainder of his life, Siegling dealt with the edition of a Tocharian grammar, as well as the indexing of a related language, Tocharian B, also known as Kuchean. This latter was not published until 1949, after Siegling's death in 1946.
Publications (selection, in chronological order)[edit]
- Die Rezensionen des Caraṇavyūha Leipzig: Printed by G. Kreysing 1906 (Inaugural dissertation)
- Ein Glossar zu Aśvaghoṣas Buddhacarita. With a biographical introduction by Ernst Waldschmidt, ed. by Heinz Bechert and others Faks.-Ausg. Göttingen: Seminar for Indology and Buddhist Studies at the University of Göttingen 1985 - A work from the academic estate, in facsimile handwriting, year of origin 1906
- A list of the more important works on Indian ethnography . In: Baines, Jervoise Athelstane: Ethnography . Strasbourg 1912
- Tocharisch, die Sprache der Indoskythen. Vorläufige Bemerkungen über eine bisher unbekannte indogermanische Literatursprache Berlin: 1908 [Special print from Session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences Berlin , 1908, 2, pp. 915–934, 1 fold-out, ill. - 2., unchangeable Special reprint. Berlin: Verl. Der Königl. Akad. Der Wiss. 1916]
- Tocharische Sprachreste. Language A. 1, The Texts; A. Transcription. 1, The texts; B. panels. Berlin: de Gruyter 1921
- Die Speisung des Bodhisattva vor der Erleuchtung, nach einem in Turfan gefundenen Handschriftenblatt in der B-Mundart des Tocharischen . Leipzig: In aedibus quae Asia major appellantur 1925, pp. [277] –283
- Tocharische Grammatik. Im Auftrage der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften bearbeitet in cooperation with Wilhelm Schulze by Emil Sieg and Wilhelm Siegling . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1931
- Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B. Edited by Emil Sieg and Wilhelm Siegling, from the estate of the ed. by Werner Thomas. Part 1: The Udānālaṅkāra fragments. Translation and glossary. Part 2: Fragments No. 71-633. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1949-53. - rework. and with e. Commentary and register provided by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1983–
Literature[edit]
- Emil Sieg: Wilhelm Siegling (1880–1946) . In: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische Gesellschaft (ZDMG) 99 (new version 24), No. 2 (1945–1950), pp. 147–149
- Ernst Waldschmidt: Biographical introduction . In: Siegling, A Glossary , 1985, pp. VII-XII
References[edit]
- ↑ Sieg, Emil (1950). "Wilhelm Siegling (1880—1946)". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 99 (2): 147–149. Retrieved 10 Aug 2021.
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