Die Hardy-Stiftung (1905 bis 1962)

Abstract

With his will from 1901, the Indologist and religious scholar Edmund Hardy (1852-1904) donated a large sum of money to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities for the annual funding and awarding of Indological research. In its active years from 1905 to 1922 and from 1930 to 1936, the Hardy Foundation supported numerous individual researchers as well as a number of international publication projects. The isolation of German scholarship that accompanied the outbreak of World War I eventually led to a national provincialisation of the foundation.

The article first illuminates the background of the foundation, then the central persons of the committee and finally the funding practice under its changing economic and political conditions.