Marcus Schmücker
is Senior Scientist at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Marcus Schmücker, born 1965 in Hamburg, studied Indology, Philosophy and Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg and Vienna. From 1992–1995 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Theology of Religions at the University of St. Gabriel (Mödling, Lower Austria). Since 1996 he has been researching at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Additionally to his work in the interdisciplinary field between theology and philosophy, his research focuses on the traditions of the Advaita Vedānta and the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.