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Axel Michaels

February 16, 2024

Axel Michaels (born 26 May 1949) is a Professor of Classical Indology and Religious Studies at Heidelberg University, former Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"[1] (2014-2019) and since 2014 the Director of the research project Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal. He also was the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics” from 2002 until 2013.[2]

Axel Michaels

Professional career edit

Born in Hamburg, Axel Michaels studied Indology, philosophy and law in Munich, Freiburg, Hamburg and Benares. After he completed his dissertation in 1978 summa cum laude, Michaels worked as a research assistant at the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg and at the University of Münster. He then worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Indology at the University of Kiel (1980 until 1992), meanwhile also holding the position as the Director of the Nepal Research Center (Kathmandu) from 1981 to 1983. From 1992 to 1996 Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bern. In 1986, he was Spalding Visiting Fellow at the Wolfson College, Oxford. Since 1996, Michaels is professor of classical Indology at Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute, which he managed as Director from 1999 to 2002.[3] Besides, he was Speaker of the interdisciplinary project “Cartography Programme on Benares”. In 2001, he was elected as the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics”. During the years 2004 to 2011, he was Speaker of the German Research Foundation Council “Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, Non-European Cultures”. Axel Michaels was co-founder and co-director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” since 2007 until 2017.[4] Furthermore, he became Head Coordinator of the Heidelberg Center South Asia[5] (2014 until 2019) and Member of AG Zukunft II at Heidelberg University in 2010.[6] Since 2010 he is Heidelberg University Rector’s delegate for cooperation with India.[7] Axel Michaels is full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2006, where he functioned as vice president from 2016 to 2020.[8] Since 2020 he is Chairman of the board of trustees of the von Portheim-Stiftung.[9]

Research edit

From 1983 to 1984, Michaels was involved in a project about the initiation rites in Nepal in collaboration with the German Research Foundation. A further project in Nepal between 1984 and 1991 focused on rituals at the Pashupatinatha-Temple. From 1998 to 2002, Axel Michaels was engaged in the project “Text and Context of the Mahima-Dharma-Movement in Orissa”. This project was followed by a research on religious and divine maps of Benares (1999-2003). Both projects were supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).[10] In 2002 he started a project in co-operation with Niels Gutschow which examined life cycle rituals in Nepal.[11] Connected to the project was the shooting and production of the films Handling Death (2005) and Belfruit and loincloth (2007), realized in collaboration with Niels Gutschow and Christian Bau. Later, he also worked on a project aiming at the translation and publication of the so called “Wright-chronicle”, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, 2011 to 2012). Currently, he is working on two research projects. The first project started in 2014, called “Religious and Legal Documents of Pre-modern Nepal”, and aims at a publication and a digital database of religious and legal documents and texts from pre-modern Nepal. The second, the “Nepal Heritage Documentation Project” is a co-operation with Christiane Brosius and started in 2018.[12]

Axel Michaels’ fields of research include Ethno-Indology, Ritual studies, Social and Legal History of Hinduism, Cultural History and Religion of Nepal.[13]

Selected publications edit

Publications[14]

  • Kultur und Geschichte Nepals. Stuttgart: Kröner Verlag 2018.
  • Homo ritualis. Hindu Rituals and its Significance for Ritual Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press 2016.
  • with Manik Bajracharya and Niels Gutschow, Nepālikabhūpa-Vaṃśāvalī: History of the Kings of Nepal – A Buddhist Chronicle. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2016. – vol. 1: Manik Bajracharya and Axel Michaels, Introduction and Translation; vol. 2: Manik Bajracharya and Axel Michaels, Edition; vol. 3: Niels Gutschow, Maps and Illustrations, 2016.
  • Getting Married – Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals among Newars of Bhaktapur und Patan, Nepal. With Niels Gutschow. Includes a Film on DVD by Christian Bau. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Ethno-Indology). 2012.
  • Buddha – Leben, Lehre, Legende. München: C.H. Beck (C.H. Beck - Wissen). 2011.
  • Manusmrti – Manus Gesetzbuch (translated from Sanskrit and published with support from Anand Mishra). Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen. 2010.
  • Śiva in Trouble – Festivals and Rituals at the Paśupatinātha Temple of Deopatan (Nepal). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2008.
  • Growing Up – Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Rituals among Newar Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal. With Niels Gutschow. Includes a Film on DVD by Christian Bau. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Ethno-Indology). 2008.
  • The Price of Purity: The Religious Judge in 19th Century Nepal. Containing the Edition and Translation of the Chapters on the Dharmādhikārin in Two (Mulukī) Ains. Torino: CESMEO, (Comitato „Corpus Juris Sancriticum et fontes iuris Asiae Meridianae et Centralis”). 2006.
  • Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings. With Ulrich Luz. Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Minneapolis: Fortress. 2006.
  • Handling Death. The Dynamics of Death and Ancestor Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur, Nepal. With Niels Gutschow. With Contributions by Johanna Buss and Nutan Sharma and a Film on DVD by Christian Bau. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2005.
  • Die Kunst des einfachen Lebens. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Askese. München: C.H. Beck. 2004.
  • Hinduism. Past and Present. Transl. (1998) by Barbara Harshaw. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. (German Original: Der Hinduismus: Geschichte und Gegenwart. München 1998. 2nd edition 2006).
  • Reisen der Götter. Der nepalische Pashupatinatha-Tempel und sein rituelles Umfeld. 2 Pts. With A. Michaels, G. Tandan. With drawings by Harald Fritzenkötter, Pashupatikshetra - Maps of Deoptan. Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag. 2004.
  • Benares - Tempel und religiöses Leben in der heiligen Stadt der Hindus. With Niels Gutschow. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag. 1993.
  • The Making of a Statue. Lost-wax Casting in Nepal. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 1988.
  • Beweisverfahren in der vedischen Sakralgeometrie - Ein Beitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Wissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien). 1978.

Edited Books

  • with Christoph Wulf: Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • with Margareta Pavaloi: The Scholar’s Choice. Lieblingsstücke Heidelberger Wissenschaftler aus dem Völkerkundemuseum der J. und E. von Portheim-Stiftung. Heidelberg: heiUP, 2019.
  • with Simon Cubelic and Astrid Zotter: Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing (open access: https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/331). Reprint: Kathmandu: National Archives, 2018.
  • with Christoph Wulf: Exploring the Senses. London, New York & New Delhi: Routledge (South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performances; 3), 2014.
  • with Christiane Brosius & Paula Schrode: Ritual und Ritualdynamik. Schlüssel-begriffe, Theorien, Diskussionen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
  • Emotions in Rituals and Performance. With Christoph Wulf. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge (South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performances). 2012.
  • Images of the Body in India. With Christoph Wulf. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge (South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performances). 2011.
  • Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual. 5 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Gen. Ed.). 2010/11.
  • Grammar and Morphology of Ritual, Section I of Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia. With Anand Mishra Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 3-353 (Dynamics of Rituals). 2010.
  • Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya. With Niels Gutschow, Charles Ramble and Ernst Steinkellner. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 2003.
  • The Pandit: Traditional Scholarship in India. [Festschrift P. Aithal]. New Delhi: Manohar (South Asian Studies). 2001.
  • Wild Goddesses in India and Nepal. Proceedings of an International Symposium in Berne and Zurich November 1994. Jointly ed. with Cornelia Vogelsanger and Annette Wilke. Bern: Peter Lang (Studia Religiosa Helvetica). 1996.
  • A Rama Temple in 19th Century Nepal. The Ramacandra Temple in Battisputali, Kathmandu. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (Publications of the Nepal Research Centre) 1995.
  • Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley - Proceedings of an International Conference in Lübeck, June 1986. Jointly ed. with Niels Gutschow. 511 pp. St. Augustin: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag (Nepalica). 1987.

References edit

  1. ^ "Axel Michaels", Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  2. ^ "Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels", Collaborative Research Center SFB 619 "Ritualdynamik". Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  3. ^ "CV - Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels" 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, South Asia Institute Heidelberg. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  4. ^ "New Directorate for Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe", Heidelberg University. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  5. ^ "HSCA Staff" February 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Heidelberg Center South Asia. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  6. ^ "AG Zukunft II", Heidelberg University. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  7. ^ "Opening of the German House for Research and Innovation in New Delhi", Heidelberg University. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  8. ^ "Die Mitglieder der HAW seit ihrer Gründung 1909", Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  9. ^ Neues Kuratorium der Portheim-Stiftung
  10. ^ "CV - Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels" 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, South Asia Institute Heidelberg. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  11. ^ "Subproject A2", Collaborative Research Center SFB 619 Ritualdynamik. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  12. ^ "Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels, Forschungsprojekte", South Asia Institute Heidelberg. Retrieved: July 12, 2021
  13. ^ "Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels, Arbeitsschwerpunkte", South Asia Institute Heidelberg. Retrieved: January 15, 2013
  14. ^ "Publikationen Axel Michaels", South Asia Institute Heidelberg. Retrieved: June 12, 2021

External links edit

  • Axel Michaels' profile at the Cluster of Excellence
  • Profile of Axel Michaels at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University
  • Works by or about Axel Michaels in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  • Video with Axel Michaels on his research on rituals in India (Latest Thinking)

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A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view Please discuss further on the talk page May 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Axel Michaels born 26 May 1949 is a Professor of Classical Indology and Religious Studies at Heidelberg University former Co Director of the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context 1 2014 2019 and since 2014 the Director of the research project Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre modern Nepal He also was the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619 Ritual Dynamics from 2002 until 2013 2 Axel MichaelsContents 1 Professional career 2 Research 3 Selected publications 4 References 5 External linksProfessional career editBorn in Hamburg Axel Michaels studied Indology philosophy and law in Munich Freiburg Hamburg and Benares After he completed his dissertation in 1978 summa cum laude Michaels worked as a research assistant at the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg and at the University of Munster He then worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Indology at the University of Kiel 1980 until 1992 meanwhile also holding the position as the Director of the Nepal Research Center Kathmandu from 1981 to 1983 From 1992 to 1996 Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bern In 1986 he was Spalding Visiting Fellow at the Wolfson College Oxford Since 1996 Michaels is professor of classical Indology at Heidelberg University s South Asia Institute which he managed as Director from 1999 to 2002 3 Besides he was Speaker of the interdisciplinary project Cartography Programme on Benares In 2001 he was elected as the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619 Ritual Dynamics During the years 2004 to 2011 he was Speaker of the German Research Foundation Council Cultural Anthropology Religious Studies Non European Cultures Axel Michaels was co founder and co director of the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context since 2007 until 2017 4 Furthermore he became Head Coordinator of the Heidelberg Center South Asia 5 2014 until 2019 and Member of AG Zukunft II at Heidelberg University in 2010 6 Since 2010 he is Heidelberg University Rector s delegate for cooperation with India 7 Axel Michaels is full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2006 where he functioned as vice president from 2016 to 2020 8 Since 2020 he is Chairman of the board of trustees of the von Portheim Stiftung 9 Research editFrom 1983 to 1984 Michaels was involved in a project about the initiation rites in Nepal in collaboration with the German Research Foundation A further project in Nepal between 1984 and 1991 focused on rituals at the Pashupatinatha Temple From 1998 to 2002 Axel Michaels was engaged in the project Text and Context of the Mahima Dharma Movement in Orissa This project was followed by a research on religious and divine maps of Benares 1999 2003 Both projects were supported by the German Research Foundation DFG 10 In 2002 he started a project in co operation with Niels Gutschow which examined life cycle rituals in Nepal 11 Connected to the project was the shooting and production of the films Handling Death 2005 and Belfruit and loincloth 2007 realized in collaboration with Niels Gutschow and Christian Bau Later he also worked on a project aiming at the translation and publication of the so called Wright chronicle which was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG 2011 to 2012 Currently he is working on two research projects The first project started in 2014 called Religious and Legal Documents of Pre modern Nepal and aims at a publication and a digital database of religious and legal documents and texts from pre modern Nepal The second the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project is a co operation with Christiane Brosius and started in 2018 12 Axel Michaels fields of research include Ethno Indology Ritual studies Social and Legal History of Hinduism Cultural History and Religion of Nepal 13 Selected publications editPublications 14 Kultur und Geschichte Nepals Stuttgart Kroner Verlag 2018 Homo ritualis Hindu Rituals and its Significance for Ritual Theory Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2016 with Manik Bajracharya and Niels Gutschow Nepalikabhupa Vaṃsavali History of the Kings of Nepal A Buddhist Chronicle Kathmandu Himal Books 2016 vol 1 Manik Bajracharya and Axel Michaels Introduction and Translation vol 2 Manik Bajracharya and Axel Michaels Edition vol 3 Niels Gutschow Maps and Illustrations 2016 Getting Married Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals among Newars of Bhaktapur und Patan Nepal With Niels Gutschow Includes a Film on DVD by Christian Bau Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag Ethno Indology 2012 Buddha Leben Lehre Legende Munchen C H Beck C H Beck Wissen 2011 Manusmrti Manus Gesetzbuch translated from Sanskrit and published with support from Anand Mishra Berlin Verlag der Weltreligionen 2010 Siva in Trouble Festivals and Rituals at the Pasupatinatha Temple of Deopatan Nepal Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2008 Growing Up Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Rituals among Newar Children in Bhaktapur Nepal With Niels Gutschow Includes a Film on DVD by Christian Bau Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag Ethno Indology 2008 The Price of Purity The Religious Judge in 19th Century Nepal Containing the Edition and Translation of the Chapters on the Dharmadhikarin in Two Muluki Ains Torino CESMEO Comitato Corpus Juris Sancriticum et fontes iuris Asiae Meridianae et Centralis 2006 Encountering Jesus amp Buddha Their Lives and Teachings With Ulrich Luz Translated by Linda M Maloney Minneapolis Fortress 2006 Handling Death The Dynamics of Death and Ancestor Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur Nepal With Niels Gutschow With Contributions by Johanna Buss and Nutan Sharma and a Film on DVD by Christian Bau Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag 2005 Die Kunst des einfachen Lebens Eine Kulturgeschichte der Askese Munchen C H Beck 2004 Hinduism Past and Present Transl 1998 by Barbara Harshaw Princeton Princeton University Press 2004 German Original Der Hinduismus Geschichte und Gegenwart Munchen 1998 2nd edition 2006 Reisen der Gotter Der nepalische Pashupatinatha Tempel und sein rituelles Umfeld 2 Pts With A Michaels G Tandan With drawings by Harald Fritzenkotter Pashupatikshetra Maps of Deoptan Bonn VGH Wissenschaftsverlag 2004 Benares Tempel und religioses Leben in der heiligen Stadt der Hindus With Niels Gutschow Koln DuMont Buchverlag 1993 The Making of a Statue Lost wax Casting in Nepal Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag 1988 Beweisverfahren in der vedischen Sakralgeometrie Ein Beitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Wissenschaft Wiesbaden Franz Steiner Verlag Alt und Neu Indische Studien 1978 Edited Books with Christoph Wulf Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe London and New York Routledge 2020 with Margareta Pavaloi The Scholar s Choice Lieblingsstucke Heidelberger Wissenschaftler aus dem Volkerkundemuseum der J und E von Portheim Stiftung Heidelberg heiUP 2019 with Simon Cubelic and Astrid Zotter Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India Heidelberg Heidelberg University Publishing open access https heiup uni heidelberg de catalog book 331 Reprint Kathmandu National Archives 2018 with Christoph Wulf Exploring the Senses London New York amp New Delhi Routledge South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performances 3 2014 with Christiane Brosius amp Paula Schrode Ritual und Ritualdynamik Schlussel begriffe Theorien Diskussionen Gottingen Vandenhoeck amp Ruprecht 2013 Emotions in Rituals and Performance With Christoph Wulf London New York New Delhi Routledge South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performances 2012 Images of the Body in India With Christoph Wulf London New York New Delhi Routledge South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performances 2011 Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual 5 vols Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Gen Ed 2010 11 Grammar and Morphology of Ritual Section I of Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia With Anand Mishra Wiesbaden Harrassowitz 3 353 Dynamics of Rituals 2010 Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya With Niels Gutschow Charles Ramble and Ernst Steinkellner Vienna Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2003 The Pandit Traditional Scholarship in India Festschrift P Aithal New Delhi Manohar South Asian Studies 2001 Wild Goddesses in India and Nepal Proceedings of an International Symposium in Berne and Zurich November 1994 Jointly ed with Cornelia Vogelsanger and Annette Wilke Bern Peter Lang Studia Religiosa Helvetica 1996 A Rama Temple in 19th Century Nepal The Ramacandra Temple in Battisputali Kathmandu Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag Publications of the Nepal Research Centre 1995 Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley Proceedings of an International Conference in Lubeck June 1986 Jointly ed with Niels Gutschow 511 pp St Augustin VGH Wissenschaftsverlag Nepalica 1987 References edit Axel Michaels Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context Retrieved January 15 2013 Prof Dr Axel Michaels Collaborative Research Center SFB 619 Ritualdynamik Retrieved January 15 2013 CV Prof Dr Axel Michaels Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine South Asia Institute Heidelberg Retrieved January 15 2013 New Directorate for Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe Heidelberg University Retrieved January 15 2013 HSCA Staff Archived February 11 2012 at the Wayback Machine Heidelberg Center South Asia Retrieved January 15 2013 AG Zukunft II Heidelberg University Retrieved January 15 2013 Opening of the German House for Research and Innovation in New Delhi Heidelberg University Retrieved January 15 2013 Die Mitglieder der HAW seit ihrer Grundung 1909 Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Retrieved January 15 2013 Neues Kuratorium der Portheim Stiftung CV Prof Dr Axel Michaels Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine South Asia Institute Heidelberg Retrieved January 15 2013 Subproject A2 Collaborative Research Center SFB 619 Ritualdynamik Retrieved January 15 2013 Prof Dr Axel Michaels Forschungsprojekte South Asia Institute Heidelberg Retrieved July 12 2021 Prof Dr Axel Michaels Arbeitsschwerpunkte South Asia Institute Heidelberg Retrieved January 15 2013 Publikationen Axel Michaels South Asia Institute Heidelberg Retrieved June 12 2021External links editAxel Michaels profile at the Cluster of Excellence Profile of Axel Michaels at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University Works by or about Axel Michaels in libraries WorldCat catalog Video with Axel Michaels on his research on rituals in India Latest Thinking Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Axel Michaels amp oldid 1170833103, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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