Klaus Mylius

Klaus Albert Robert Curt Mylius (born 24 August 1930 in Berlin) is a German indologist.

In 1954, Klaus Mylius passed a special maturity examination at the then Workers' and Peasants' Faculty (ABF) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).

In 1964, he was awarded his second doctorate in Indology on the subject of The social conditions of India after the Śatapatha Brāhmana (German: Die gesellschaftlichen Zustände Indiens nach dem Śatapatha-Brāhmana) (examiner: Karl Ammer).

In 1976 he became associate professor for Sanskrit and Indian antiquity here and continued to head the department of Ancient Oriental Studies.

[3] After the reunification of Germany, Mylius, who is emeritus professor in Leipzig, took on a teaching position from 1990 to 1994 at the University of Bayreuth, Institute for Religious Studies (Director: Ulrich Berner).

[4] Klaus Mylius is an internationally recognised Indologist who represents his special field of Sanskrit and Indian antiquity.