Klaus Karttunen (University of Helsinki)

submitted: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:16:17 EET DST

Klaus Karttunen, Ph.D.
Docent of Indology and Classical Ethnography
University of Helsinki, Finland
Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Academy

mailing address:
Department of Asian and African Studies
P.O.Box 13 (Meritullinkatu 1)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND

residence:
Sokinsuontie 3 B 49
FIN-02760 Espoo
FINLAND

phone: 358-0-8054731 (residence)
fax:   358-0-19122094
email: klaus.karttunen@helsinki.fi
email: KJKARTTU@KATK.helsinki.fi

Description of work:
Fields of interest:

Contacts between India and the Classical World (textual evidence in 
Old and Middle Indo-Aryan, in Tamil, in Greek and Latin); Greek 
ethnography

History of Indology and Oriental Scholarship

Vedic grhya ritual and its later developments

Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian history