Background
Bechert, Heinz Helmut was born on June 26, 1932 in Munich. Son of Rudolf M. and Herta (Bade) Bechert.
Bechert, Heinz Helmut was born on June 26, 1932 in Munich. Son of Rudolf M. and Herta (Bade) Bechert.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Munich, 1956.
Research assistant University Saarbruecken, 1956-1961, University Mainz, 1961-1964, lecturer, 1964-1965. Professor, Indian and Buddhist studies University Goettingen, since 1965. Research fellow Colombo, Ceylon, 1958-1959, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1990.
Visiting professor Yale University, New Haven, 1969-1970, 74-75.
Author: Buddhisms, Staat und Gesellschaft, 3 vols., 1966-1973, Sinhalese Manuscripts, 2 vols., 1969-1997, W. Geiger, 1976, 95.Co-author, editor: The World of Buddhism, 1984, reprinted 1991, Pali Niti Texts of Burma, 1981, When Did the Buddha Live?, 1995, Buddhism in Ceylon, 1978, Einfuehrung in die Indologie, 1979, The Language of the Earliest Buddhist Tradition, 1980, Zur Schulzugehörigkeit von Werken der Hinayana-Literatur, 2 vols, 1985-1987, The Dating of the Historical Buddha, 3 vols., 1991-1997, Sanskrit Dictionary of the Buddhist Texts from the Turfan Finds, 1972-1999, Burmese Manuscripts, 4 vols., 1979-2000.
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen since 1968, Academie Royale de Belgique since 1973, Royal Swedish Academy, of Literature, History and Antiquities since 1988.
Married Marianne Wuerzburger, August 20, 1963.