DUTOIT, Julius Franz Gustav. Darmstadt 13.3.1872 — Munich 17.6.1958. German Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of a teacher of modern languages. Matriculated from the Gymnasium of Darmstadt in 1890. In 1890-93 studied classical philology at Munich, Giessen, and again Munich (also Indology under E. Kuhn). As student became Roman Catholic. Ph.D. 1898 Erlangen. Gymnasium teacher in Würzburg 1893-94, in Dillingen 1894-95, from 1895 in Speyer, from 1902 in Munich, from 1922 in Aschaffenburg and finally Director of Riemenschneider Gymnasium in Würzburg (1929-34). Then retired and moved to Munich.
Dutoit is mainly remembered for his complete translation of the Jātaka commentary, but one is bound to ask, whether from Pāli or English. Instead of the correct ‘Banyan’ he has ‘Banane’, which could be English wrongly read, but hardly from Pāli. Or did he (or his printer) misread his own handwriting?
Publications: Diss. Zur Festordnung der grossen Dionysien. 45 p. Jahresbericht des K. hum. Gymnasiums Speyer 1897/98; other works and textbooks on classical philology.
– Zur Geschichte und Kritik der Gutturaltheorie. 44 p. Programm des Kgl. Luitpoldgymnasiums in München für das Schuljahr 1905-06.
– Die duṣkarācārya des Bodhisattva in der buddhistischen Tradition. 99 p. Strassburg 1905.
– Das Leben des Buddha. Nach den kan. Schriften der südlichen Buddhisten. 161 p. Munich or Lp.1906, 2nd ed. B. 1921 (selected translations).
– Jātakam: Das Buch der Erzählungen aus früheren Existenzen Buddhas. 1-7. Lp. 1908-21.
– “Jātakazitate in den Jātakatexten”, Fs. E. Kuhn 1916, 345-352.
Sources: D.G.K. 1940/41; Lebenslauf in diss.; Societas Latina in periodic.pantoia.de; works in Ges.Verz.; not in the N.D.B.; few lines in German Wikipedia; photo in Rau 93.
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