Short bio

Patrick Zeitlhuber has joined the IKGA as publication coordinator in October 2024. He has studied German Studies (BA, MA) and South Asian Studies (BA) as well as English and American Studies (BA). He is a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Vienna, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Hannes Fellner and Univ.-Prof. Nina Mirnig, focusing on quantitative methods to measure linguistics distance between Sanskrit, Pāli, the dialects of the Aśokan inscriptions and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages. Additionally, he works on his MA thesis in pre-modern South Asian Studies, supervised by Dr. Marion Rastelli, about the Devīrahasya, a tantric text of the Kula tradition.  His further interests include the socio-cultural and religious history of South Asia, yoga as well as contemporary religious practices. Furthermore, Patrick Zeitlhuber is a lecturer at the Department of German Studies and an affiliated member of the FWF Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations.”