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Heinrich Robert Zimmer

Born

in Greifswald, Germany

January 01, 1890

Died

January 01, 1943

Genre

Art, Religion, Psychology

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Heinrich Robert Zimmer (1890-1943) was an Indologist & historian of South Asian art. He began his career studying Sanskrit & linguistics at the Univ. of Berlin where he graduated in 1913. Between 1920-24 he lectured at the Univ. of Greifswald, moving to Heidelberg to fill the Chair of Indian Philology. In 1938 he was dismissed by the Nazis. He emigrated to England where between 1939-40 he taught at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1942 he moved to NY to accept a Visiting Lecturer position in Philosophy at Columbia Univ. One of his students during this time period was Joseph Campbell. He died there, of pneumonia, in 1943. His method was to examine religious images using their sacred significance as a key to their psychic transformation. His use o ...more

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	The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil 4.25 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 1948 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Joseph Campbell (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1946 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophies of India by Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Joseph Campbell (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1951 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Indian Asia: Its Mythology and Transformation, 2 Vols by Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Joseph Campbell (Editor) 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India by Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Gerald Chapple (Translator), James B. Lawson (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1926 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland by Heinrich Robert Zimmer, A. Meyer (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1902 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Irish element in mediaeval culture 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maya: Der indische Mythos 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoga y budismo by Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Mª Pau Pigem Pérez (Translator), Joaquín Martínez Piles (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introducere în civilizația și arta indiană 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Via Joseph Campbell: My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, "The best things can't be told," because they transcend thought. "The second best are misunderstood," because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts."The third best are what we talk about.”
― Heinrich Zimmer

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“With the compelling convincingness of dreams, which are vague yet exact, the ghost voice draws us (to ourselves and all of our component selves), lifts them casually out of the well of the past--the well wherein nothing is lost, the deep well of forgetfulness, and remembrance--and tosses them mockingly on the glassy table surface of our consciousness. There we are forced to consider them. There we are forced to regard, analyze, and re-understand.”
― Heinrich Zimmer, The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

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“It is because they are alive, potent to revive themselves, and capable of an ever-renewed, unpredictable yet self-consistent effectiveness in the range of human destiny, that the images of folklore and myth defy every attempt we make at systematization. They are not corpselike, but implike.”
― Heinrich Robert Zimmer, The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

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