PFUNGST, Arthur Joseph. Frankfurt a.M. 9.3.1864 — Frankfurt a.M. 3.10.1912. German Poet and Bauddha. Son of Julius Pf., a tobacco merchant, studied chemistry and mathematics at Leipzig (dr. 1886). Succeeded his father as one of the owners of Naxos-Union (manufacturing grinding machines) in Frankfurt/Main, but mainly concentrated on Buddhist studies. As poet he also used the nom-de-plume Arthus Cornelius.
Publications: Diss. Über die Einwirkung der Nitroethane auf die Chlorhydrine mehrwertiger Alkohole. Lp. 1886.
– Der Suttanipata. 1889 (Uragavagga transl.); Ein deutscher Buddhist. Oberpräsidialrat Theodor Schulze. 50 p. St. 1899; Aus der indischen Kulturwelt. 1904; In Yamas Reich. 1909.
– Edited the Gītā with Boxberger’s translation and a glossary. 1906.
– translated Rhys Davids’ Buddhism into German: De Buddhismus. n.d. ; E. Arnold, Die Leuchte Asiens. 1887.
– Gesammelte Werke. Hrsg. von Marie Pfungst. 1-2. 128+400, 8+559 p. Frankfurt/Main 1926.
Sources: *biography in Gesammelte Werke. 1, 1926; D. Rebentisch, N.D.B. 20, 2001, 367f.; German Wikipedia with photo.
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