SCHARBAU, Carl Anders (soon C. A. Skriver-Scharbau). Garstedt 8.12.1903 — 24.3.1983. German Priest and former Student of Indology/Religion. Became interested in Buddhism in 1920. A heart defect slowered his career, but later also saved him from war service in the army. Ph.D. 1932 Tübingen. Ordained 1933 in Hamburg. In 1934-58 worked as Lutheran pastor in Ockholm near Danish border in Schleswig-Holstein, far enough of the centers on Nazi power (he was part of the protest movement of the “Confessing Church”). A convinced vegetarian. Married Hildgard Brockdorff (1903–1982), three children.
Publications: Diss. Die Idee der Schöpfung in der vedischen Literatur. Eine religiosgeschichtliche Untersuchung über den frühindischen Theismus. 10+176 p. Abh. zur Orient. Philologie und Allgemeine Religionsgeschichte 5. St. 1932.
– Mathilde Ludendorff’s Verleumdung vom Diebstahl der Evangelien aus Indien und die Wahrheit: indologische Randbemerkungen zu Mathilde Ludendorff’s “Erlösung von Jesu Christo” und “Von neuem Trug”. Gotha 1932 (article?).
– Books not relevant for Indology, mainly on theology and vegetarianism.
Sources: Diss. in Janert; pastorenverzeichnis.de; compassionatespirit.com.
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