Richard von Garbe

Richard Karl von Garbe (9 March 1857, Bredow, Szczecin - 22 September 1927, Tübingen) was a German professor of philosophy, who made significant contributions to documenting and studying Indian philosophical texts and concepts.

Life and education Von Garbe was born on 9 March 1857 at Bredow, near Stettin (now Szczecin) in the Kingdom of Prussia. He went on to study at the Tübingen University, where he continued his education in Sanskrit with German Indologist Rudolph von Roth, who had recently published the Sanskrit Wörterbuch, a substantial dictionary of the Sanskrit language. He completed his Ph.D. in 1876.

Awards and honors

1909 Cross of Honour of the Order of the Württemberg Crown 1926 Honorary diploma of the Faculty of Philosophy, Tübingen University

Personal life von Garbe married Anna Wichert in 1887, and they had three children: a son and two daughters. He died at the age of 70, in Tübingen.

Publications

von Garbe, Vaitâna sûtra: das ritual des Atharvaveda (1878) von Garbe, Die indischen Mineralien: ihre Namen und die ihnen zugeschriebenen Kräfte (repr. Gerstenberg, 1974) von Garbe, Indien and das Christentum: eine untersuchung der religions-geschichtlichen zusammenhänge (1914) von Garbe, Die Sâmkhya-Philosophie: eine Darstellung des indischen Rationalismus (1917) von Garbe, “Die” Bhagavadgītā (1921)