The autocrats in Moscow and Beijing believe that the west is divided, decadent and in decline. They have to be proved wrong. Otherwise, all the rhetoric about freedom is merely noise before defeat. (Andrew Rawnsley in The Guardian)
Home page of Prof. Robert Zydenbos
(professor of Modern Indology, Institute of Indology and Tibetology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, München
[Temporary update: October 14, 2025]
“If you don’t say what you think, then you kill your unborn self.” (Jordan Peterson)
The opinions that are expressed on these pages do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the LMU Munich.
The institute page of Prof. Zydenbos at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institute for Indology and Tibetology) can be found here.
Prof. Zydenbos retired in October 2023. New course offerings have not (yet) been planned.
Overview of a few things that could be of interest to students (and others):
Reading list (German): Basics of Indian worldviews (27.02.2022)
How to write Kannada on a Computer
The use of Unicode fonts for Indological purposes on Apple computers with the Mac OSX operating system (needs updating, but contains information that may still be useful)
Publications of Prof. Zydenbos
‘Gender language’ in German: what it is, and why you should not have anything to do with it – click here. An investigation of the linguistic aspects of the phenomenon and of the illiberal, unscientific, authoritarian, pseudo-liberal politics behind it.
A Manual of Modern Kannada, which was developed for and used in the course at the LMU, is available in book form as well as in downloadable PDF format as an Open Access publication: https://doi.org/10.11588/xabooks.736 – A book review has appeared in the Kannada-language newspaper Vijaya Karnataka of 28 January 2021.
Please also see the list of corrigenda.
How to write Kannada on a Computer (information in German)
Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen auf verschiedenen Computersystemen
Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen unter macOS (Stand: 15.8.2019)
Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen unter Windows™ (Stand: 6.10.2020)
Installieren einer Kannada-Tastaturbelegung unter Linux (Beispiel anhand von Linux Mint)
Prof. Zydenbos' list of publications (not entirely complete, updated 4-IX-2023) can be read here as a PDF file and here as a web page.
Prof.
Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos (retd.)
Department für Asienstudien - Institut für Indologie
und Tibetologie
Universität München
Germany
(The word убийца means ‘murderer’)