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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Professor Dr.
| birth_date = {{birth date|1859|4|11}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1931|4|24|1859|4|11}}
| birth_place = [[Berg, Thurgau|Berg]], [[Switzerland]]
| death_place = [[Freiburg im Breisgau|Freiburg]], [[Germany]]
| occupation = Linguist, Jainologist
}}

'''Ernst Leumann''' (11 April 1859 – 24 April 1931)<ref name=ELD1>{{cite book | title= Zur Erinnerung an Prof. Dr. Ernst Leumann, geb. 11. April 1859, gest. 24. April 1931 |author=Manu Leumann |publisher=Buchdr. Berichthaus|date=1931}}</ref> was a Swiss [[Jainism|jainologist]], pioneer of the research of [[Jainism]] and [[Turkestan]] languages<ref name=ELD2>{{cite web| title= Ernst Leumann |url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D44654.php | publisher=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz |author= Andreas Bigger}}</ref> whose work is in consideration even today.<ref name=HEUT1>{{citation|surname1=Ernst Leumann|editor-surname1= Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology|title=An outline of the Āvaśyaka literature: Vorwort von Nalini Balbir|location=Ahmedabad|isbn=978-81-8585-732-9|date=2010|orig-year=1934 Hamburg|trans-title=Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur|language=German|others=George Baumann (trans.)
}}</ref>

==Career==
His studies on [[linguistics]] in [[Zürich]] and [[Geneva]] and of [[Sanskrit]] in [[Leipzig University|Leipzig]] and [[Berlin University|Berlin]] were followed by his doctorate in 1881 in [[University of Strasbourg|Strasbourg]]. His dissertation was {{lang|de|Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Sanskritsprache}} {{in lang|de}} (''[[Etymology|Etymological]] [[Dictionary]] of the [[Sanskrit]] Language'').<ref name=PRO1>{{LCCN|99939999}}</ref>

1882–84 working on ''Sanskrit-English Dictionary'' in [[Oxford]].<ref group=N name=SED1>Monier-Williams: Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1899</ref><br />
1884 [[Teacher|Professor]] in [[Frauenfeld]] (Schweiz).<br />
1884 [[Full professor|Professor]] of Sanskrit at University Strasbourg. In 1909–10 he was dean.<br />
1919 became honorary professor in Freiburg.<ref group=N name=GRU1>Ernst Leumann had to leave Strasbourg after [[World War I|WW1]] when Strasbourg became French territory again</ref>

==Publications==
===Author===
*Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens (Relations of [[Jain literature]] to other literature of India) {{in lang|de}}<ref name=LEL11>{{cite book| title=Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu anderen Literaturkreisen Indiens|publisher= E.J. Brill |location= Leiden |date=1885 |language=de |trans-title=Relations of [[Jain literature]] to other literature of India |lccn=ltf91052809}}</ref>
*Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar (Overview on Āvaśyaka literature, glossary) {{in lang|de}}<ref name=ELP1>{{cite book| title= Übersicht über die Āvaśyaka-Literatur Glossar |date= 1934 |language=de |trans-title=Overview on Āvaśyaka literature, glossary}}</ref>
*Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar {{in lang|de}} (Aupapâtika Sûtra, the first jain Upânga : part 1, introduction, text and glossary)<ref name=ELP0>{{cite book| title= Das Aupapâtika Sûtra, erstes Upânga der Jaina : 1. Teil – Einleitung, Text und Glossar |author= Ernst Leumann | orig-year =18883| publisher=Hansebooks |date= October 2016| isbn= 9783743360419|language=de }}</ref>
*Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien {{in lang|de}} (The Nun, A new Tale from Old India)<ref name=ELP5>{{cite book| title= Die Nonne. Ein neuer Roman aus dem alten Indien (Übers.)| author= Ernst Leumann | location=München-Neubiberg |publisher=Oskar Schloss Verlag| date= 1921 |language=de}}</ref>

===Editor===
Series ''Indica''.

===Posthumous publications===
* {{cite book |author= Ernst Leumann |title=Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur. Aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Walther Schubring |location= Hamburg |date= 1934 |language=de |trans-title=Overview about the Avasyaka Literature. Published by the estate of Walther Schubring.}}
* {{cite book| title= Kleine Schriften |author= Ernst Leumann |location=Stuttgart |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |date=1998 |isbn= 9-783-4470-4882-8 |language=de |trans-title=Small Writings |editor=Nalini Balbir}}

==Literature==
* Catalogue of the Papers of Ernst Leumann in the Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg {{in lang|de}}<ref name=ELP6>{{cite book| title= Alt- und Neuindische Studien |trans-title=Old and new Indian studies |editor=Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University Hamburg |publisher=Franz Steiner-Verlag |location=Stuttgart |date=1998 | author=Birte Plutat |issn=0170-3242 |chapter= Ernst Leumann Liste von transcrib. Abschriften und Auszügen e.c.t.| isbn=3515070966 }}</ref>
* <ref name=ELP7>{{cite journal |script-title=ja:恩師ロイマン教授 |trans-title= Prof. Dr. Ernst Leumann |year= 1931 |language=ja |journal=Mikkyou Kenkyuu |publisher=Association of Esoteric Buddhist Studies | volume= 42 |pages= 122–151 |issn= 1884-3441 |doi=10.11168/jeb1918.1931.42_122 |last1= 藤田 |first1= 眞道 }}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Sanskrit verbs]]

==Notes==
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