Mark Jan Dresden
Indology
Curriculum vitae
1911 | born in Amsterdam on April 26 |
1937 | MA in classics and Indology, University of Amsterdam |
1941 | PhD under the supervision of J. Gonda, Utrecht University |
1945-1949 | teacher Greek and Latin at a secondary school, Amsterdam |
1949-1977 | professor in Iranian languages, University of Pennsylvania |
1986 | died in Philadelphia on August 16 |
Sources
- Personal webpage , Iranica online
Selected publications
1941 Mānavagr̥hyasūtra: a Vedic manual of domestic rites, translation, commentary, and preface, Groningen. – PhD thesis Utrecht.
1942 “Iranica I. Bibliographia Sogdiana Concisa.” Ex Oriente Lux 8: 729-734.
1944 “Introductio ad Linguam Hvatanicam.” Ex Oriente Lux 9 (1943-1944): 200-206.
1949 “Sogdian publications 1940-1046.” BO 6,1: 28-31.
1955 The Jātakastava or “Praise of the Buddha’s former births”, Indo-Scytian (Khotanese) text, English transl., grammatical notes, and glossaries, Philadelphia, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society NS 45,5: pp. 397-508.
1971 Review of: J. C. Heesterman, G. H. Schokker and V. I. Subramoniam (eds), Pratidānam: Indian, Iranian and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday, The Hague 1968. JAOS 92,2: 312-315.