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Subject: H-ASIA: Indologist Dušan Zbavitel (1925-2012)


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> August 9, 2012
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> Indologist Dušan Zbavitel (1925-2012)
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> From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@GMAIL.COM> Add
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> Indologist Dušan Zbavitel dies
>
> <http://
> praguemonitor.com/2012/08/08/indologist-du%C5%A1-zbavitel-dies>
> Prague Daily Monitor
>
> Prague, Aug 7 (CTK) - Czech Indologist and translator Dušan
> Zbavitel died at the age of 87 yesterday, his daughter Gita
> Zbavitelova has told CTK.
>
> Zbavitel translated over 60 books and wrote one of the first
> textbooks of Sanskrit.
>
> Experts say the first Czech translation of the complete
> Upanishads is one of the most outstanding works of his.
>
> Zbavitel made it directly from the Sanskrit original and
> it was published several years ago.
>
> Dusan Zbavitel was born Kosice, east Slovakia, in 1925,
> and studied Indology at Charles University in Prague.
>
> From 1954, he worked as a researcher of the South Asia
> Department of the Prague Oriental Studies Institute and
> became its head in 1960.
>
> He also taught Bengali at the Faculty of Arts of Charles
> University.
>
> After 1968, he was forced to leave the post as he disagreed
> with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
>
> Read the full obituary here.
> <http://praguemonitor.com/2012/08/08/indologist-du%C5%A1-zbavitel-dies>
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