Horst Brinkhaus
Horst Brinkhaus was a German professor of Indology at University of Kiel until the closure of Indology at that university in 2014. He is a specialist in Sanskrit, Nepali, and Newar literature. From 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1985 he was director of the German Nepal Manuscript Preservation project. He completed his Habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 1985. In the words of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp he is at the "vanguard of Indo-Nepalese and Nepalese studies".