WALTER, Otto. Goseck, Sachsen-Anhalt 28.12.1868 (1878?) — 1941?. German Indologist. Son of Bruno Walter, a Lutheran minister, educated at Naumburg Gymnasium. From 1888 studied Indology, theology, history, English and philosophy at several universities. Ph.D. 1903 Strassburg (under E. Leumann). In the 1910s/1920s editor of the series Religiöse Stimmen der Völker (according to catalogue.leidenuniv.nl this was Walter Otto, 1878–1941).
N.B. there is also another Otto Walter, a classical philologist, who was nearly contemporary. The Swiss publisher Otto Walter (1899?–1944) was younger.
Publications: Diss. Übereinstimmungen in Gedanken, Vergleichen und Wendungen bei den indischen Kunstdichtern von Vālmīki bis auf Māgha. 44 p. Lp. 1904 (= Indica 3, 1905).
– Translated: Der Kumārasambhava oder die Geburt des Kriegsgottes von Kalidasa. 85 p. Munich & Lp. 1913 (prose transl. of KS 1-8); Raghuvamscha oder Raghus Stamm. Ein Kunstepos. 241 p. Munich & Lp. 1914.
Sources: Diss. in Janert, vita in diss.; works in Ges.verz. 1700–1910 & 1911–1965.
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