Prof. i. R. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann

Main Research and Teaching Interests

• Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts from Central Asia and Afghanistan
• Buddhist canonical literature
• Classical Kunstdichtung
• Current developments of Buddhism in Asia
• Reception of Buddhism in the West

Participation in research co-operations 

• Graduate School, funded as part of the 'Exzellenz-Initiative': "Distant Worlds"

Positions

• Director of the Academy projects „Wörterbuch der tibetischen Schriftsprache“/"Dictionary of Written Tibetan" and (until the end of 2021) „Buddhistische Handschriften aus Gandhara“/"Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhara" at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Chairman of the Commission for the Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden (Sanskrit Dictionary of Buddhist Texts from the Turfan Finds) at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (until the end of the project in December 2017)
• Director of the projects „Indische Handschriften“/"Indian Manuscripts", „Mitteliranische Handschriften“/"Middle Iranian Manuscripts" (until the end of 2015), „Sanskrit-Handschriften aus den Turfanfunden“/"Sanskrit Manuscripts from the Turfan Finds" and „Burmesische Handschriften“/"Burmese Manuscripts" as part of the Cataloguing of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
• Representative of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the Wissenschaftliche Kommission der Deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
• Member of DFG Review Board 106 „Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Judaistik und Religionswissenschaft“/"Non-European Languages and Cultures, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies" (2012-2020)
• Representative of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities at the Union Académique Internationale
• Board member of the Indien-Institut e.V. Munich