________________ DELEU JOZEF A. C., was born in 1925 at Alveringem, West Flanders. He studied Germanic Philology and, in 1947-48, Sanskrit (under A. Scharpe) and Tocharian (under W. Couvreur) at the State University of Ghent. He graduated in 1957 on a dissertation entitled "De Prabandhakosa van Rajasekharasuri." From 1958 to 1963 he worked as a researcher of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research. He was awarded a travelling scholarship that allowed him to study Jaina Prakrit (under W. Schubring and L. Alsdorf) at the University of Hamburg in 1959. In 1963 he took the degree of 'Geaggregeerde H.O.' at the University of Ghent, where, subsequently, he was appointed 'Geaggregeerde' of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. Publications : "Lexicographical Addenda from Rajasekharasuri's Prabandhakosa" (Indian Linguistics, Turner Jubilee Volume II, Poona 1959); "Studies in the Mahanisiha, Chapters I-III of the M. critically edited..." (in one volume with W. Schubring's edition of Chapters of the same text, Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien 10, Hamburg 1963); "Indische Literatuur" (Moderne Encyclopedie der Wereldliteratuur IV, Gent 1967); "Nirayavaliyasuyakkhandha, Uvanga's 8-12 van de jaina Canon" (Orientalia Gandensia IV, Leiden 1969); etc. rs IV-V Jain Education Internauone & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
