MAŃKOWSKI, Leon (von / M. h. Zaremba). Podolia 6.11.1858 — Cracow 18.4.1909. Polish (Austrian) Indologist. Professor in Cracow. Son of Walery M. and Tekla Natalia Łaźnińska. Gymnasium in Berlin and Dresden. After law studies at Leipzig started Slavonic and Indology at Breslau (Stenzler, Hillebrandt), then from 1891 under Bühler at Vienna, later also at Leipzig. Dr. iuris. Habilitation 1892 at Vienna. Ph.D. From 1894 Docent of Sanskrit at Jagellonian University in Cracow, from 1904 eo. Professor. Founded the Seminarium Sanskrytu there. He was often ill and unable to give his teaching and therefore without direct pupils. After his relatively early death the Indology in Cracow was finally established by Gawroński. Married Zofia Michalowska (1872–1928), three sons.
Publications: Hab.diss. Der Auszug aus dem Pañcatantra in Kṣemendras Bṛhatkathāmañjarī. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Anm. 55+80 p. Lp. 1892.
– “Bâṇa’s Kâdambarî und die Geschichte von Sumanas in der Bṛihatkathâ”, WZKM 15, 1901, 213-250 & 16, 1902, 147-182.
– “Über die neuesten Ergebnisse der Pañcatantra-Forschung”, Bull. Acad. des Sciences de Cracovi 1908, 124-129.
Sources: Briefly E. Sluszkiewicz, IAC 7:4, 1959, 416; I. Milewska, Cracow Indological Studies 1, 1995, 5f.; not in Ö.B.L.; Polish Wikipedia gives birth and death dates; parents and marriage in geni.com.
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