Indology

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vitus.angermeier@​oeaw.ac.at

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CV and Publications

Short bio

Vitus Angermeier has been working at the IKGA since May 2025. He studied Indology at the University of Vienna and completed his doctorate on the topic of “Water in Classical Indian Medicine”, supervised by Prof. Karin C. Preisendanz, in 2017. The dissertation was published as a monograph by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press in 2020. He was already involved in various research projects during his studies, principally on the topic of “Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India”. Since 2015, Angermeier has regularly taught at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, primarily on topics related to Āyurveda, but also introductory language courses and courses on the epics and on state theory texts.
Since 2022, he has been project leader in the research project “Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia”, which initially started at the University of Vienna and is carried out at the IKGA from May 2025. Angermeier works mainly with texts from the āyurvedic corpus, but also with materials from the Pāli canon, the Indian epics and the Arthaśāstra. He is particularly interested in topics such as the reception of nature, geographical concepts, cultural development, social and medical-historical issues and ethical concepts.

Furthermore, Angermeier is a member of the Steering Committee of the annual International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) and co-founder of the Initiative for Fair Open Access in South Asian Studies (FOASAS).

Monograph

Regenzeiten, Feuchtgebiete, Körpersäfte. Das Wasser in der klassischen indischen Medizin. Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 103. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2020. doi.org/10.1553/0x003be698.

Edited volume

Together with Christian Ferstl, Dominik A. Haas, and Channa Li (eds.). Puṣpikā: Proceedings of the 12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Vienna, 2021). Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology 6. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1133.

Selected articles

  • Together with Anja Vukadin. ‘Causes of Suffering: Unravelling Suśruta and Sāṅkhya.’ Studia Orientalia Electronica 12 (2024): 1–23. doi.org/10.23993/store.131660.
  • ‘Dharma and the Physicians: Karmic Concepts in Classical Ayurvedic Literature’. In: Visages du dharma, edited by Silvia D´Intino and Christelle Barois. Purushartha 39. Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 2023: 71–94.
  • ‘The Seasons in Ancient Indian Medicine: Long Winters or Extensive Rains?’ History of Science in South Asia 10 (2022): 247–71. doi.org/10.18732/hssa89.
  • ‘Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Ayurvedic Concept?’ In Body and Cosmos. Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk, edited by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, and Sara Speyer. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series 20. Leiden: Brill, 2021: 15–32. doi.org/10.1163/9789004438224_004.

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