Ernst Waldschmidt

Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897, Lünen, Province of Westphalia – February 25, 1985, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Indologist.

He was a pupil of German indologist Emil Sieg.

Waldschmidt joined the Nazi party in May 1937 and became a member of the National Socialist German Lecturers League in 1939.

[1][page needed] He was a specialist on Indian philosophy, and archaeology of India and Central Asia.

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