Ludwik Sternbach

Ludwik Sternbach (12 December 1909 – 25 March 1981) was a lawyer, United Nations officer, and Indologist.

Early life

Sternbach was born in the Polish city of Kraków to Jewish parents: the lawyer Dr Edward Sternbach and his wife Clara (née Amster).

Sternbach studied Sanskrit in parallel to training as a lawyer. In 1927 he matriculated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating as a magister juris in 1931. He proceeded to take an LL.D. in 1933, and also qualified in commercial law and statistics. From 1936 to 1939 he practiced law as an advocate, and on account of his prodigious linguistic skills was the official court's translator for Spanish, Italian, German, French, and English. and, following his death, another in 1981.

Works

A complete list of Sternbach's publications up to that time appears in his 1979 Festschrift. Sternbach's books include:

Supplement to O. Böhtlingk's Indische Sprüche (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft/Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner, 1965). A new Cāṇakya-Rāja-Nīti-Śāstra manuscript (Bombay: Bhāratiya Vidyā Bhavan, 1958). The Mānava dharmaśāstra, I-III and the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa (Varanasi: All India Kashi Raj Trust, 1974). The spreading of Cāṇakya's aphorisms over "Greater India" (Calcutta: Calcutta Oriental Book Agency, 1969). Bibliography of Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra (Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Institute, 1973). [Mahā-subhāṣita-saṅgraha] = Mahā-subhāṣita-saṁgraha: being an extensive collection of wise sayings in Sanskrit, critically edited with introduction, English translation, critical notes, etc., 3 vols (Hoshiarpur : Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1974–77). A descriptive catalogue of poets quoted in Sanskrit anthologies and inscriptions (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1978–80). Subhāṣita, gnomic and didactic literature (Wiesbaden : O. Harrassowitz, 1974). Poésie sanskrite dans les anthologies et les inscriptions (Paris: Collège de France, Institut de civilisation indienne/Diffusion, E. de Boccard, 1980–1985). The Kāvya-portions in the Kathā-literature (Pañcatantra, Hitopadeśa, Vikramacarita, Vetālapañcaviṁśatikā, and Sukasaptati); an analysis (Delhi: Meharchand Lachhmandas, [1971-1976]) The Hitopadeśa and its sources (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1960) With Varanasi Kauṭalya, A new abridged version of the Bṛhaspati-saṁhitā of the Garuḋa Purāṇa (Purāṅ Dept.: All-India Kashiraj Trust, 1966). Vyāsasubhāṣitasaṅgrahaḥ: Luḍvhik Ṣṭerṇabākh ityetaiḥ anekamātṛkādhāreṇa pāṭhāntarādibhiḥ saṃśodhya idamprathamatayā sampāditaḥ (Vārāṇasī: Caukhambā Saṃskṛta Sīrīja Āphisa, 1969) Canakya's aphorisms in the Hitopadesá (I-IV), American Oriental Society. Publications. Offprint series, 28 (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1956–57). Gaṇikā-vr̥tta-saṅgrahaḥ, or, Texts on courtezans in classical Sanskrit (Hośyārapure: Viśveśvarānandasaṃsthāna-prakāśanamaṇḍalam, ) Indian riddles: a forgotten chapter in the history of Sanskrit literature (Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1975). Bibliography on dharma and artha in ancient and mediaeval India (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1973). With Kauṭalya, The subhāsita-samgraha-s as treasuries of Cānakya's sayings (Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Institute, 1966). Cāṇakya-nīti-text-tradition = [Cāṇakya-nīti-śākhā-samprad āyah] (Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1963-) Aphorisms and proverbs in the Kathā-sarit-sāgara (Lucknow: Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1980-). With Kauṭalya, Cāṇakya-rāja-nīti: maxims on Rāja-nīti / compiled from various collections of maxims attributed to C[sup]-aṇakya (Adyar, Madras, India: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, 1963). The subhāsita-samgraha-s as treasuries of Cānakya's sayings (Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Institute, 1966). Unknown verses attributed to Kṣemendra (Lucknow: Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1979). Traduction et commentaire de l'homélie écrite probablement par Théodore le Syncelle sur le siège de Constantinople en 626 / Ferenc Makk; avec une préface de S. Szádeczky-Kardoss; appendice, Analecta Avarica de L. Sternbach (Szeged: JATE, 1975).