Klaus K Klostermaier was born on 1933 and is a Catholic priest and scholar of Hinduism, Indian history and culture.
10 Facts About Klaus Klostermaier
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An ordained Catholic priest, Klaus Klostermaier was a missionary and theology teacher for nine years in India in the 1960s.
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Klaus Klostermaier joined the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba in 1970.
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Klaus Klostermaier received a Rh-Institute Award for "Excellence in the Humanities", of a Templeton Course Award in Science and Religion and an Award for Excellence in Graduate teaching from the University of Manitoba.
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Klaus Klostermaier was the University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
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Klaus Klostermaier served as the Head of its Center for Religion and Culture from 1986 to 1995.
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Klaus Klostermaier was the Director of Academic Affairs at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies from 1997 to 1998.
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Klaus Klostermaier has spent ten years in India and has researched primary sources in various languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Pali, Latin, Classical Greek, German, Italian and French.
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Klaus Klostermaier is the author of 53 works in seven languages listed at worldCat.
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For instance, Klaus Klostermaier considers the Indus Valley civilization as Vedic-Indian, which pushes back the Vedic period by several thousand years beyond the accepted chronology.