Background
Lipner, Julius Joseph was born on August 11, 1946 in Patna, India. Son of Vojtech and Sylvia Teresa (Coutts) Lipner. arrived in England, 1971.
Lipner, Julius Joseph was born on August 11, 1946 in Patna, India. Son of Vojtech and Sylvia Teresa (Coutts) Lipner. arrived in England, 1971.
Lipner obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974, and then spent a little over a year as lecturer in Indian religion at the University of Birmingham, before being appointed to Cambridge University in 1975, where he has taught ever since.
After his schooling in India, he obtained a Licentiate in Theology (summa cum laude) in the Pontifical Athenaeum (now Jnana Deepa Vidyapith) in Poona, and then spent two years studying for an Master of Arts in Indian and Western philosophy at Jadavpur University in Calcutta (Kolkata). Before taking his final examinations, he was invited by the philosopher H.D. Lewis to undertake doctoral research (under Lewis’ supervision) in the Self with reference to Indian and Western thought, at King’s College, University of London. Lipner has numerous publications in his fields of specialism to his cartulary-register
These include 12 volumes (authored, co-authored and edited) and more than 80 articles and translations.
He lectures widely in the United Kingdom and abroad, and was appointed Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor in a number of universities both nationally and internationally. Lipner is a Fellow and former Vice-President of Clare Hall - a postgraduate College of the University of Cambridge - and in 2008 he became a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Member British Association History of Religions, Catholic Theological Association Great Britain (founding member), Society for Study of Theology, Cambridge Theological Society.
Married Anindita Neogy, February 20, 1971. Children: Tanya, Julius.