Education
Halbfass studied Philosophy, Indology and Classical Philology at the universities of Vienna and Göttingen, and successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Indian Philosophy at Göttingen University in 1967.
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Wilhelm Halbfass
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Career
He was a professor in the departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982 until his death in 2000. Along with Professor Ludo Rocher, Professor Ernest Bender, Professor George Cardona, and several other Sanskritists, he made the University of Pennsylvania the center of Sanskrit learning in North America.
