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Paul Deussen was born in 1845 in Oberdreis in the Rhine Province, one of eight children of a clergyman of modest means. He became a student, and lifelong devotee, of the German philosopher Schopenhauer, and of the philosophy of Kant; and he became a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche. Deussen was educated at Bonn, Tubingen and Berlin Universities between 1864 and 1881, writing his dissertation on Plato’s philosophy. He was appointed Privatdocent (1881-7) and Extraordinarius (1887-9) at the university of Berlin, and Ordinarius (1889–1919, the year of his death), at the University of Kiel. Deussen continued to edit the yearbook on Schopenhauer until that year, and worked on an edition of Schopenhauer’s works.
Paul Deussen’s name is thus linked with George Boucher, Sir William Jones, and Sir John Woodroffe in British India, Anquetil du Perron and Eugene Burnouf in France, Heinrich Roth, Franz Bopp and Friedrich von Schlegel in Germany, and Max Müller in Germany, France and England, in the European revelation of the wealth of Hinduism as revealed by Sanskrit documents. And if this search was diverted by the theories of ‘Indo-Germanic’ as a mother tongue, and other later vested interests such as ‘Aryanism’, the scholarship of these pioneers stands in its own right.
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Paul Deussen was born in 1845 in Oberdreis in the Rhine Province, one of eight children of a clergyman of modest means. He became a student, and lifelong devotee, of the German philosopher Schopenhauer, and of the philosophy of Kant; and he became a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche. Deussen was educated at Bonn, Tubingen and Berlin Universities between 1864 and 1881, writing his dissertation on Plato
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