Walter Slaje


Walter Slaje is an Austrian Indologist.

Life

Slaje was librarian at the University Library of Graz. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he received his Habilitation in 1993. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Indology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 2000 he was elected to the Board of Helmuth von Glasenapp - Foundation. In 2001 he was an expert of Indological Commission in the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, since 1 January 2011. He is a member of the Commission since 2003 its chairman. On 21 June 2002 he was a corresponding member, 5 November 2010 as a full member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur elected. He is director of the decorated hall at the University Center for historiography and intellectual culture of Kashmir Academy of Sciences and Literature. For the functioning period between 2010 and 2011, he became the first manager, for the period from 2012 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2017 to 1. Chairman of the German Oriental Society elected. From 1998 to 2009 he worked as a division of the publisher of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.

Works