Ronald Eric Emmerick"Contributor Biography - German Ronald Eric Emmerick (Sydney, 9 March 1937 - Hamburg, 31 August 2001) completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge (1965) and was professor of Iranian philology at the University of Hamburg (1971-2001). Befor 1971 he had worked at the universities of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), Cambridge (Research Fellow of St. John's College), Chicago (Oriental Institute), and Sydney (Department of Latin). He was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a corresponding member of the former Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (1990), a corresponding member of the Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1997), and an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1999). In addition to numerous articles in academic journals, he authored the following books: Tibetan texts concerning Khotan (1967); Saka grammatical studies (1968); The Book of Zambasta, a Khotanese poem on Buddhism (1968); The Sutra of Golden Light (1970, 2nd ed. 1990, 3rd ed. 1996); The Khotanese Sura?gamasamadhisutra (1970); Saka documents VI (1971) and VI (1973); A guide to the literature of Khotan (1979, 2nd ed. 1992); The Siddhasara of Ravigupta, vol. 1 (1980), vol. 2 (1982); The Tumshuqese Karmavacana Text (1985); Studies in the vocabulary of Khotanese, vol. 1 (1982), vol. 2 (1987), vol. 3 (1997), all with Prods O. SkjAervo; A Chinese text in Central Asian Brahmi script, with Edwin G. Pulleyblank; Saka documents VII: The St. Petersburg collections (1993), and Saka documents text volume III: the St. Petersburg collections (1995), both with Margarita I. Vorob'eva-Desjatovskaja. " Read More Read Less