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Betty Heimann
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1888-1961
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Betty Heimarin studied Sanskrit and cultural epistemology in Kiel, Heidelberg, Gottingen and Bonn. In 1919, Heimann received her PhD from Kiel University where her thesis was on Upaniad Bhaya. She emigrated to England in 1933 and taught at the University of London. From 1945 to 1949 Heimann was a professor at the University of Ceylon in Colombo, Ceylon, founding the Department of Sanskrit at the university.
Her book, Indian and Western Philosophy: A Study in Contrasts (1937) is based on the Forlong Fund Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society. The Society also published her work on the Sanskrit langauge entitled The Significance of Prefixes in Sanskrit Philosophical Terminology in 1951.