Kleine Schriften.

• Author: Jamison, Stephanie W.
• Position: Book Review

Kleine Schriften. By ERNST WINDISCH. Edited by KARIN STEINER and JORG GENGNAGEL. Glasenapp-Stiftung, vol. 41. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 2001. Pp. xxvii + 717. DM 228.

Although Ernst Windisch (1844-1918) began his scholarly life in Classical Philology, he devoted most of his scholarly energies to two geographical extremes of the Indo-European world, Celtic studies and Indology. His efforts in the latter field were considerable, as the more than 700 pages of kleine (and not so kleine) Schriften reprinted here attest. The volume contains twenty-seven articles, from notes occupying less than a page to a number of substantial pieces up to sixty pages long. The articles appeared over the course of more than four decades (the first in 1873, the last in 1916) and range over many sub-fields, from Vedic (e.g., "Eine vedische Wettfahrt? RV.II.31" 1893) to Classical drama (e.g., "Die griechische Einfluss im indischen Drama" 1882) and...