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Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist and academic. He is the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series (volumes 50-80). ==Biographical information== Witzel was born at Schwiebus, then in Germany, now Poland. He studied Indology in Germany (from 1965 to 1971) under Paul Thieme, H.-P. Schmidt, K. Hoffmann and J. Narten as well as in Nepal (1972–1973) under the Mīmāmsaka Jununath Pandit.〔(Michael Witzel's curriculum vitae ), accessed September 13, 2007.〕 At Kathmandu (1972–1978), he led the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project and the Nepal Research Centre. He has taught at Tübingen (1972), Leiden (1978–1986), and at Harvard (since 1986) and has held visiting appointments at Kyoto (twice), Paris (twice), and Tokyo (twice). He has been teaching Sanskrit since 1972. He is noted for his studies of the dialects of Vedic Sanskrit,〔Michael Witzel, (On the Localisation of Vedic Texts and Schools (Materials on Vedic sakhas, 7) ), ''India and the Ancient World. History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650. P.H.L. Eggermont Jubilee Volume'', ed. by G. Pollet, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 25, Leuven 1987, pp. 173-213, pdf, accessed September 13, 2007.〕 old Indian history,〔Michael Witzel, (The Development of the Vedic Canon and Its Schools: The Social and Political Milieu (Materials on Vedic Sakhas, 8 ), in ''Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas'', ed. M. Witzel, Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, vol. 2, Cambridge 1997, pp. 257-345, pdf, accessed September 13, 2007.〕 the development of Vedic religion,〔Michael Witzel, (How To Enter the Vedic Mind? Strategies in Translating a ''Brahmana'' Text ), ''Translating, Translations, Translators From India to the West'', Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, vol. 1, Cambridge: Harvard Oriental Series, 1996, pdf, accessed September 13, 2007; Steve Farmer, John B. Henderson, and Michael Witzel, (Neurobiology, Layered Texts, and Correlative Cosmologies: A Cross-Cultural Framework for Premodern History ), ''Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities'' 72 (2000): 48-90, pdf, accessed September 13, 2007.〕 and the linguistic prehistory of the Indian Subcontinent. He is editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies (EJVS)〔(Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies homepage ), accessed September 13, 2007.〕 and the Harvard Oriental Series.〔(About the Harvard Oriental Series ), accessed September 13, 2007.〕 He has been president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP) since 1999,〔(Personal web page ), accessed July 30, 2015〕 as well as of the new International Association for Comparative Mythology (2006-). He was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, and was elected as an honorary member of the German Oriental Society (DMG) in 2009. He became Cabot Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard U. (2013), recognizing his book on comparative mythology (OUP, 2012)〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Witzel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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