DELEU, Jozef Albert Cornelius

DELEU, Jozef Albert Cornelius. Alveringem. West Flanders 17.11.1925 — Ghent 15.3.1994. Belgian Indologist. Studies at Ghent (B.A. 1948 in Germanic philology, Ph.D. 1957 under Scharpé) and in 1959 Hamburg (Schubring and Alsdorf). In 1949-58 teacher (leraar Germaanse talen) at Atheneum Kapellen, 1958-64 at Atheneum Kortrijk. From 1964 at Universiteit Ghent: 1964-71 fakulteitsaggregeerde, 1971-80 docent in de Indologie, 1980-81 hoogleraar (Professor), and from 1981 gewoon hoogleraar en titularis van de leerstoel Indologie. Retired 1990. Jaina scholar.

Publications: Diss. on Rājaśekhara’s Prabandhakośa. 1957.

With W. Schubring: Studien zum Mahānisīhasutta. Kapitel 1–5. 10+240 p. ANISt. 10. Hamburg 1963.

– “Over een fragment van de Viyāhapannatti“, Or. Gand. 2, 1965, 145-187; “Nirayāvaliyā Suyakhandha – Uvanga’s 8–12 van de Jaina Canon”, Or. Gand. 4, 1967, 77-150; shorter articles.

Edited: W. Schubring: Nayadhammakahao. Das sechste Anga des Jaina-Siddhanta. Nacherzählung, ausgew. Textausgabe und Kommentar. Aus dem Nachlass hrsg. 79 p. A.W.L. 1978:6.

Viyāhapannatti (Bhagavaī), the fifth Anga of the Jaina canon. Intr., critical analysis, commentary and indices. 359 p. Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Werken uitg. door de Fac. van de lett. en wijs. 151. Brugge 1970.

Contribution to W. Haussig (ed.): Götter und Mythen des indischen Subkontinents. Wörterbuch der Mythologie 1:5. St. 1984.

Sources: Wie is wie in Vlaanderen 1980; *Jain Studies in Honour of Jozef Deleu. 504 p. Tokyo 1993; J. Jacobs, Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Biographie Belge d’Outre-Mer, T. IX, 2015, col. 72-76 (internet); photo in http://www.jainastudies.ugent.be/node/8.

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