| The Florida Vedic College appoints the following
Professors to the teaching, in the roles and functions
here mentioned: |
| Marcus
Schmieke |
President of the EAVS
Head of the Vasati Department
Head of the Vedic Astrology Department |
| Florian Heinzmann,
MA |
Head of the Sanskrit Department |
| Reinhart Schacker,
CAS |
Head of the Ayurveda Department |
| Merete Mattern, Dipl.
Ing. |
Teacher of Architecture and Ecology |
| Sacinandana Swami |
Teacher of Vedanta |
| Jochen Weiss |
Teacher of Sanskrit |
| Jelena Neumann |
Teacher of Vedic Astrology |
Marcus Schmieke (Florida Vedic College) is President
of the European Academy of Vedic Sciences and head of
the Vasati and Vedic Astrology Departments at the Florida Vedic
College. He is Director of the Vedic Academy in Germany
and President of the German chapter of the International
Institute of Predictive Astrology.
Marcus Schmieke was born 1966 in Oldenburg, Germany, and
studied Physics in Hannover and Heidelberg. He is one
of the world's pioneers in Vasati and founder of the Vedic
Academy in Germany. Since 1996 then he has been giving
seminars and working as mentor for students of Vasati (Vedic
Architecture) and Vedic Astrology. Being a prolific author
of more than 20 books translated in 14 languages he is
well known also beyond the borders of Europe.
He is a mentor for students of Vasati and Vedic Astrology Courses
at the EAVS, and he also teaches the Karma & Dharma
module of the Vedanta Personality Development course.
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Tiziano
Valentinuzzi, Dott. graduated in Astronomy at
the University of Padua, Italy and studies vedic science
and philosophy since 1996. He is now completing his PhD
in Cosmology at the University of Padua where he studies
the scaling relations for elliptical galaxies and the
nature of the dark matter in the universe. He also promotes
in many ways the positive integration between science
and spirituality.
He is the founder of the “Accademia Vedica”
in Italy and the head of the Department of Sciences of
the European Academy of Vedic Sciences; he gives seminars
and conferences on Vasati and Vedic Astrology and writes articles
on vedic cosmology and science. He studied Vasati at the
“Veden Akademie” with Marcus Schmieke and
Vedic Astrology with Dr. David Frawley ad as a tutor of EAVS he
assists in taking care of the Vasati and Vedic Astrology students
in Italy.
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Florian
Heinzmann, MA, the Head of the Sanskrit Department
of the European Academy of Vedic Sciences, graduated
in Literature at the University of Heidelberg. He continued
his study in Sanskrit und Bengali and currently works
on his dissertation in religious studies. He cooperates
with the Vedic Academy in Germany in the field of academic
contacts and presentation.
He is author of several philosophical articles published
in the Tattva-Viveka and other magazines and often lectures
on hindovedic philosophy and religion. He participated
in several interreligious conferences in Germany. Additionally
he works as editor and translator for the BBT Publishers.
At the European Academy of Vedic Sciences he is co-tutor
for the students of the Sanskrit Courses. Furthermore,
he is preparing a Bengali course for gaining the basic
understanding of classical Bengali texts.
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Reinhart
Schacker, CAT/CAS, is Head of the
Ayurveda Department and mentor for students of the Ayurveda
Correspondence Course. 1983 he spent 6 months in Rishikesh
(India) studying Ayurveda and in 1986 he completed his
yoga teacher course at the Shivananda Yoga Centre. He
graduated from the SEVA Academy (Munich, Germany) first
as Ayurveda Therapist (CAT) with a practical training
in India and completed his studies as Ayurveda Specialist
(CAS) in 1997.
Since 1999 he is teaching the Ayurveda Correspondence
Course at the Vedic Academy in Germany, mentoring students
and leading workshops. He has many years of experience
in giving yoga, breathing and reiki courses and seminars
of Ayurveda and Ayurvedic cooking, especially in adult
education.
He is author of two books on Ayurveda, both published
in Germany. He often lectures on the topic of Ayurveda
and writes articles published in German.
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Sacinandana
Swami is teacher at the Vedanta Department of
the Florida Vedic College and the European Academy for
Vedic Sciences. He is one of the founding members of the
Vaishnava Training and Education project. At Bhaktivedanta
College in Belgium he is a member of the Faculty Council,
where he also teaches courses on character development.
At the EAVS he is teaching the Atma and Paramatma Module
of the Vedic Personality Development course.
Born 1956 in Hamburg, Germany, since 1971 a monk in the
tradition of Caitanya Vaishnavism, he has been travelling
around the globe spreading the Vedic wisdom and helping
others in their spiritual life and personal development. He
gives workshops and retreats on practical spirituality
and lectures about hindovedic philosophy and has written
The Nectarean Ocean of the Holy Name and The
Way of the Great Departure. His new book on the Gayatri
mantras will be published shortly and aims to become the
standard work on this subject-matter.
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Jochen
Weiss is teacher at the Sanskrit Department
of the Florida Vedic College and author of the Sanskrit
Course of the European Academy of Vedic Sciences. He
has studied physics and Indian philosophy at the University
of Heidelberg, and he has been studying Sanskrit language
and literature since more then 15 years, with special
emphasis on hindovedic scriptures.
He works as literary author, translator and editor.
He translated several books into German language, and
also translates also German publications of the Vedic
Academy in Germany into English. His first literary
work „Kali comes“ is a historical novel
taking place in the Vedic times. He gives seminars and
courses on hindovedic philosophy.
At the European Academy for Vedic Sciences he is the
teaching the Sanskrit Courses and the Triguna module
of the Vedanta Personality Development Course.
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Jelena
Neumann studied Astrology at the Vedic Academy
in Germany from Marcus Schmieke and works as astrologer.
She especially learned and specialized the Vedic partnership
astrology. She assisted in the development of the Prashna
astrological software for the Vedic Academy by writing
the texts for the horoscope interpretation. She gives
classes in Astrology, works as astrological advisor
and writes Articles about astrology. At the European
Academy of Vedic Sciences as co-tutor she is supporting
Marcus Schmieke in taking care of the Vedic Astrology students.
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