NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies of Germanistics and Indology at Greifswald and Berlin, then comparative religion at Marburg. Ph.D. 1933 Marburg (under Nobel). From 1937 Assistant at Marburg Curator in charge of Marburg Religionskundliche Sammlung, until 1968, also taught at university. Also knew Pāli, Tocharian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan. Unmarried.
Publications: Diss. Die Sanskrit-Grammatik des Hemacandra (Śabdānuśāsana, Buch 1, Kap. 1–3: Terminologie und Wohllautregeln) mit seinem eigenen, ausführlichen Kommentar (Bṛhadvṛtti). 101 p. Braunschweig 1935.
– “Bibliographie Heinrich Frick”, Theologische Literaturzeitung 78, 1953, 440-442.
– Wrote on Japanese religion in F. Heiler’s Die Religionen der Menschheit. St. 1959.
Sources: Diss. in Janert; www.zeit.de/1955/52/die-religionswissenschaftlerin (1955); German Wikipedia.
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