Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen is a research lecturer (associate professor) at theOxford Centre for Hindu Studies[1] and a tutor in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sanskrit at the Faculty of Theology and Religion atOxford University.[2] His research interests are: Religion,Hinduism,Indic languages (especiallySanskrit, Vedic andPali);Śāktism andtantric traditions; ascetic reformism (6th to 2nd century BCE); the Middle Ages inIndia andNepal;Yoga and asceticism; Myths and rituals; the history of ideas in South Asia; religioushistoriography. Wernicke-Olesen is the leader of the Śākta Traditions project, an international research project with a focus on Indian religious traditions of South Asia.[3]
Wernicke-Olesen is author of the Danish Sanskrit grammar and readerGudernes Sprog: Klassisk sanskrit på dansk ("The language of the Gods: Classic Sanskrit in Danish").[4][5][6][7] This Sanskrit grammar is the first of its type in a Scandinavian language sinceNiels Ludvig Westergaard's "Kortfattet Sanskrit Formlære" in 1846, and was welcomed by professorGavin Flood as "a landmark publication in Scandinavian Indology".[8]
