Richard Karl von Garbe

Richard Karl von Garbe (9 March 1857, Bredow, Szcezecin - 22 September 1927, Tübingen) was a German professor of philosophy, who made significant contributions to documenting and studying Indian philosophical texts and concepts. Quotes Richard Garbe, in his Indische Reiseskizzen of 1889, made sure to preface his criticism of missionary operations with the following disclaimer: “In order to protect myself against the charge of expressing anti-clerical views, I note that I would greet a mass conversion of the Indian population to Christianity joyfully and would see it as the foundation for progress and prosperity.” Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009) Garbe’s important synthetic treatment Indien und das Christentum, published in 1914 after many more years of scholarly debate, opened by stating the author’s hopes that the volume would be helpful to missionaries in India, “for those who seek to exert influence on the religious life of the educated Hindus can, in my opinion, link (their work] with nothing better than with the elements that already have found their way from Christianity into the teaching of the Hindu sects.’”” Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009) In Kapila's doctrine, for the first time in the history of the world, the complete independence and freedom of the human mind, its full confidence in its own powers, were exhibited. Galav, Philosophy of Hinduism: universal science-religion . {[II mtroduction [S.l.: s.n.], c1992. ISBN: 0964237709 p. 35, as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture In the present day, the blood of the Hindus is without a doubt only Aryan to the smallest degree, and even the Brahman families have been starkly contaminated with barbarian blood. Richard Garbe, Indische Reiseskizzen (Berlin: Gebrüder Paetel, 1889), 86. quoted in Adluri, V., & Bagchee, J. (2014). The nay science : a history of German Indology. Oxford University Press. External links Category:1857 births Category:1927 deaths Category:Philosophers from Germany Category:Indologists