Siegfried Lienhard

Who is Siegfried Lienhard?

Siegfried Lienhard, born on 29 August 1924 in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria, died March 6, 2011, was a professor of Indology at Stockholm University and a scholar of the Newar language.

He has 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 folk songs, and textual studies of classical Newar 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.