Schmidt, Klaus
Nachgelassene Schriften: 1. Ein westtocharisches Ordinationsritual, 2. Eine dritte tocharische Sprache: Lolanisch
The Indo-Germanist and Tocharologist Klaus T. Schmidt, who died in 2017, left behind two book manuscripts: his edition of the longest Western Tocharian text, an ordination ritual for Buddhist monks, and an unfinished work on the long-suspected but as yet unproven third Tocharian language, called "Lolan" by Schmidt. Zimmer carefully edited both manuscripts and supplemented the second with illustrations of the text fragments Schmidt had worked on. Schmidt's decipherment of Lolan is a milestone in Central Asian research!
