DR SCHOKKER RETIRES

Dr G.H. Schokker has retired from the Department of South and
Central Asian Languages and Literature (Kern Institute, Leiden
University) on January 1, 1995. After having studied Indology
in Groningen, Dr Schokker was appointed to the Kern Institute
to prepare his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof.
F.B.J. Kuiper. In 1958 he defended this thesis žyžmilaka, the
Pždatžitaka. A Text-Critical Edition (The Hague/Paris: Mouton
& Co., 1966). Appointed lecturer at the Kern Institute in
1965, he grew more and more interested in Old Hindi and bhakti
literature. Besides giving courses in this field, he has spent
most of his time studying the bhakti literature of North
India. The past few years he has been working on texts ascri-
bed to Kežavadžs, the results of which will be published in
the years to come.