Siegfried Lienhard (29 August 1924, in Sankt Veit an der Glan – 6 March 2011[1]) was a professor of Indology at Stockholm University and a scholar of Sanskrit and the Newar language.[2]

He published on the history of poetry in South Asia, as well as a catalogue of the Newar manuscripts held in the State Library of Berlin, a collection of Newar folk songs, and textual studies of classical Newar texts. In 1995 his students and colleagues published a Festschrift in his honour. In 2007 Oskar von Hinueber edited the collected minor writings of Siegfried Lienhard.

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  1. ^ "Academy of Europe: Lienhard Siegfried".
  2. ^ Per Kværne: [Review of] Siegfried Lienhard: Die Legende vom Prinzen Viśvantara, 1980. Kailash 9, 1982, pp. 279–281.