Dr. Jonas Buchholz

Jonas Buchholz studied Sanskrit and Tamil in Heidelberg and finished his studies with an M.A. degree in 2012. In 2018, he defended his PhD thesis on classical Tamil literature at the University of Hamburg. From 2014 to 2019, he worked as a research associate in the ERC funded project “Going from Hand to Hand: Networks of Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions (NETamil)” at the University of Hamburg. From 2019 to 2022, he conducted the DFG-funded project “Temple Networks in Early Modern South India” together with Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken at the University of Heidelberg. He has also taught as a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen. Since 2022, he is employed at the research project “Hindu Temple Legends in South India” at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and acts as deputy leader of the project. His research interests include Tamil and Sanskrit literatures and their mutual relationship, Tamil Śaiva temple culture, manuscript studies, as well as Digital Humanities.

Positions

• since 2022: Research fellow, deupty project leader of the research unit “Hindu Temple Legends in South India”, Heidelberg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities.
• 2019-2022: Research fellow, co-PI of the DFG project “Temple Networks in Early Modern South India”, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.
• 2014-2019: Research fellow, ERC project “Going from Hand to Hand: Networks of Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions”, University of Hamburg.
• 2017-2018: Visiting lecturer, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Hamburg
• 2014-2015: Visiting lecturer, Center for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen
• 2012-2013: Visiting lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen

Qualifications

• 2013-2018: PhD in Indology, University of Hamburg
• 2006-2012: M.A. (Magister Artium) in Classical Indology, Modern Indology, and Semitic Studies, Heidelberg University