Heinrich von Stietencron

Heinrich von Stietencron (18 June 1933 – 12 January 2018) was a German Indologist.

During his academic career, he was an emeritus professor and the chair of the Indology and Comparative Religion department at the University of Tübingen.

Stietencron was born 18 June 1933 in Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland.

[1] His dissertation, titled "Indische Sonnenpriester: Sāmba und die Śākadvīpīya Brāhmaṇa" ("Indian Sun Priests: Sāmba and the Śākadvīpīya Brāhmaṇa") was published by Harrassowitz in 1966.

[1] Beginning in 1965, Stietencron assisted Hermann Berger for five years at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg.

The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferring the first ‘Distinguished Indologist’ Award to the Prof. Emeritus Heinrich Freiherr Von Stietencron of the Federal Republic of Germany at the inauguration of the International Conference of Indologists, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on November 21, 2015.