Heinrich Zimmer

Heinrich Zimmer

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German Indologist and linguist (1890–1943)

About Heinrich Zimmer

Heinrich Robert Zimmer was a German Indologist and linguist, as well as a historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India. He was the most important German scholar in Indian philology after Max Müller (1823–1900).

Notable works:

The king and the corpse: tales of the soul's conquest of evil

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