Biography

Michael Witzel was born July 18, 1943, in Schwiebus, Germany (modern Swiebodzin, Poland). He studied indology in West Germany from 1965 to 1971 under Paul Thieme, H.-P. Schmidt, K. Hoffmann, and J. Narten, as well as in Nepal (1972 to 1973) under Mimamsaka Jununath