09-04-2006, 07:20 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Sep 3 2006, 10:09 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Sep 3 2006, 10:09 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->One hint, not sure whether valid, King of England was German, and there were many other interconnections between German and British politics...
Or maybe genuine interest in German academicians towards East, as a result of the rise of German nationalism sentiment. They liked to see themselves different from Romans. (like Nietze's path breaking "Thus Spoke Zaruthastra", many other works of contemporary Germans, Austrians, Hungarians)
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A guess...
After W.Jones' suggestion that Sanskrit and the classical European tongues had a common origin in an <b>Indo-Germanic</b> language {Which later became Indo-European}, it was very well received, and many chairs of Indology were set up across nineteenth-century Germany. In Britain, which ruled India, had very few (not sure how mnay though).
I believe even now there are chairs in Germany that combine Indology and <b>Indo-Germanic</b> languages - <i>In our day and age, Harvard Donkeys and PFA inventor, with FOSA Pakis, continue this bogus racist tradition.</i> <!--emo&
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Why Germany? It is the German obsession with the myth of the Aryan race, German scholars embarked on the search for the oldest forms of religion and of language, which would be found among aryans - The aryans of India of a "stagnated" society, and the reasons for this "stagnation" and explanations and answers were provided by "German Romanticism" - or something like that...... Heck, even David duke talks about "stagnation" even today. Harvard Donkey has the same ideas too, but puts a "prefessional acadamic" spin, while proclaiming the same.
Or maybe genuine interest in German academicians towards East, as a result of the rise of German nationalism sentiment. They liked to see themselves different from Romans. (like Nietze's path breaking "Thus Spoke Zaruthastra", many other works of contemporary Germans, Austrians, Hungarians)
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A guess...
After W.Jones' suggestion that Sanskrit and the classical European tongues had a common origin in an <b>Indo-Germanic</b> language {Which later became Indo-European}, it was very well received, and many chairs of Indology were set up across nineteenth-century Germany. In Britain, which ruled India, had very few (not sure how mnay though).
I believe even now there are chairs in Germany that combine Indology and <b>Indo-Germanic</b> languages - <i>In our day and age, Harvard Donkeys and PFA inventor, with FOSA Pakis, continue this bogus racist tradition.</i> <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Why Germany? It is the German obsession with the myth of the Aryan race, German scholars embarked on the search for the oldest forms of religion and of language, which would be found among aryans - The aryans of India of a "stagnated" society, and the reasons for this "stagnation" and explanations and answers were provided by "German Romanticism" - or something like that...... Heck, even David duke talks about "stagnation" even today. Harvard Donkey has the same ideas too, but puts a "prefessional acadamic" spin, while proclaiming the same.