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Michael Witzel

Literature

#217

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#669

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Philology

#130

World Rank

#349

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Michael Witzel's Degrees

PhD Indology University of Tübingen
Masters Indology University of Tübingen

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Witzel is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist. Witzel is the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series .

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Michael Witzel's Published Works

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The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools : The Social and Political Milieu (1997) (100)
Afghan Hindu Kush: Where Eurasian Sub-Continent Gene Flows Converge (2013) (96)
The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization (2004) (88)
Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan (Rgvedic, Middle and Late Vedic). (1999) (52)
Early Sanskritization. Origins and Development of the Kuru State (1995) (52)
The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States (2009) (48)
Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts. (2001) (40)
Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods (2009) (37)
Neurobiology, layered texts, and correlative cosmologies: A cross-cultural framework for premodern history (2000) (31)
Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia (2003) (23)
Aryan and non-Aryan names in Vedic India: data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900 - 500 B.C. (1999) (19)
Vala and Iwato: The Myth of the Hidden Sun in India, Japan, and beyond (2005) (18)
Substrate languages in old - indo Aryan (2001) (16)
Macrocosm, mesocosm, and microcosm: The persistent nature of ‘Hindu’ beliefs and symbolic forms (1997) (10)
How to enter the Vedic mind? Strategies in Translating a Brahmana text (1996) (10)
14. Ṛgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities (1995) (9)
The linguistic history of some Indian domestic plants (2009) (8)
Brahmanical Reactions to Foreign Influences and to Social and Religious Change (2006) (8)
Toward a History of the Brahmins (1993) (8)
Shamanism in Northern and Southern Eurasia (2011) (8)
Textual criticism in Indology and in European philology during the 19th and 20th centuries (2014) (8)
Selected writings on Indian linguistics and philology (1997) (7)
Nepalese hydronomy: towards a history of settlement in the Himalaya (1993) (7)
The Languages of Harappa: Early Linguistic Data and the Indus civilization (2000) (6)
A Refutation of the Claimed Refutation of the Nonlinguistic Nature of Indus Symbols: Invented Data Sets in the Statistical Paper of Rao et al. (Science, 2009) (2009) (6)
A Refutation of the Claimed Refutation of the Nonlinguistic Nature of Indus Symbols: Invented Data Sets in the Statistical Paper of Rao et al. (Science, 2009) (2009) (6)
Early ‘Aryans’ and their neighbors outside and inside India (2019) (6)
On the history and the present state of Vedic tradition in Nepal (1976) (6)
Rai Mythology: Kiranti Oral Texts (2009) (4)
Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia (2008) (3)
Female Rishis and Philosophers in the Veda (2009) (2)
Computer Models of the Evolution of Premodern Religious , Philosophical , and Cosmological Systems (2002) (2)
The Indus ‘non-script’ is a non-issue (2013) (2)
Computer Models of the Evolution of Premodern Religious , Philosophical , and Cosmological Systems (2002) (2)
Origin and Development of Language in South Asia: Phylogeny Versus Epigenetics? (2012) (1)
F.B.J. Kuiper (1907–2003) (2004) (1)
Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal (2015) (1)
6. Early Loan Words in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations (2017) (1)
Time and Space in Ancient India: Pre-philosophical Period (2017) (1)
Water in Mythology (2015) (1)
On Indian Historical Writing (1990) (1)
WESTWARD HO ! The Incredible Wanderlust of the gvedic Tribes Exposed by S . Talageri ( Saavadhaanapattra no . 2 ) (2001) (1)
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY & ESTONIAN LITERARY MUSEUM, TARTU, ESTONIA (2019) (0)
(On) The reimport of Veda traditions to Kashmir in the early 15th century (2018) (0)
Shamanism (2020) (0)
Temporal and Regional Variations in the Use of Indus Symbols: New Methods for Studying Harappan Civilization (2005) (0)
Rigvedic town and ocean: Witzel vs Frawley (2007) (0)
Visiting Deities of the Hopi, Newar and Marind-anim: A Comparative Study of Seasonal Myths and Rituals in Horticultural Societies (2012) (0)
The Kashmiri Brahmins (1995) (0)
The Incredible Wanderlust of the ègvedic Tribes Exposed by S.Talageri (2001) (0)
Of Dice and Divination (2017) (0)
Early ‘Aryans’ and their neighbors outside and inside India (2019) (0)
Method, at least to an automatic detection of at least one jammer and / or of at least one malfunction within a wireless communication infrastructure of a smart home system (2016) (0)
Myths and Consequences (2007) (0)
WESTWARD The Incredible Wanderlust of the Ṛ gvedic Tribes Exposed by S. Talageri (2016) (0)

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