Charlotte Krause her Life and Literature

SR No.: 001785
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 674
Language: English, Hindi, Gujarati
Classification: Book_English, Biography, & Articles
File Size: 11 MB

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didactic poems ( sajjhāya) of the Jainas. The texts are in Saṁskṛta, Apabhrarśa and Old-Gujarati. The editions are partially furnished with extensive comments and notes. These works appear as five articles in the Jaina Satya Prakāśa ( 1945-1954 ) and in the books Traņa Prācīna Gujarāti Kịtio ( 1951 ) and Ancient Jaina Hymns (1952).
After 1952 Charlotte Krause settled again in Gwalior, now as Indian citizen. She received a small pension from her occupation as Inspectress of Schools and gave private lessons in English and German. Apparently she did not publish much anymore and might have lost contact with the established academia in the West. Some of her German and Indian scholar-colleagues have observed that because she failed in her attempts to get a research assignment in India, such as from the L. D. Institute of Indology in Ahmedabad, she might have felt that she was not really recognised by the scholarly world. One even wonders whether this was the reason why she did not participate in the All India Oriental Conference in Ahmedabad in 1953.
In about 1960, she came in contact with the Catholic Church in Gwalior and started taking interest in the Catholic faith. Soon afterwards she converted to the Roman Catholic faith. In 1962, she had a small house built in the premises of the Catholic Church St. Johan the Baptist in Gwalior on the agreement that the bungalow would belong to the Church after her death. She stayed there until her death on January 27, 1980. Scholarly Bequest* in B.O.R.I., Pune
In her will Dr. Charlotte Krause wrote: "To the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (B. O. R. I.), P. O. Deccan Gymkhana, Poona - 1, I leave (1) all my books other than on Homoeopathy and Medicines, ( 2 ) my finished and unfinished research papers and notes with their boxes, if any."
* Seen by Luitgard Soni in March 1996.