Friedrich Hirth ( German: Friedrich Hirth , Chinese夏德, Pinyin Xià Dé; April 16, 1845 , Grafenton , Saxe-Gotha - January 10, 1927 , Munich ) is a German-American sinologist , historian, one of the founders of U.S. synology. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin . He was awarded his doctorate in 1869 at the University of Greifswald . In 1870-1897 served at Shanghai Maritime Customs. In 1902 he was invited to the newly opened Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Columbia University (New York). In 1920, Kang Yuwei negotiated with him on the complete translation and publication in English of the Da Tung Shu treatise. After the resignation he returned to Germany. Hirth bequeathed his book collection to the Berlin Library ; after World War II, it ended up in Krakow . [four]
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Selected Bibliography
- China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Medieval Relations as represented in old Chinese Records (1885)
- Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade (1888)
- Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (2 Bände, 1885-88)
- Chinesische Studien , volume i (1890)
- Die Lander des Islam nach Chinesischen Quellen (1895)
- Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst (1896)
- China im Zeichen des Fortschrittes (Sonderabdruck aus: Deutsche Monatsschrift für das gesamte Leben der Gegenwart, Jg. 1902, S. 511-535) (Berlin: Duncker 1902)
- Chinesische Ansichten über Bronzetrommeln (MSOS I, 7) (Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1904)
- Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians (1905)
- Syllabary of Chinese sounds (1907)
- The Ancient History of China (1908)
- Mr. Kingsmill and the Hiung-nu (Sonderabdruck aus JAOS 30.1 (1909) 32-45) (Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1910) (mit William Woodville Rockhill) Zhao Rukuo (趙汝 适 / 赵汝 适): His work on the Chinese and Arab trade in the 12th and 13th centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi . (Erstveröffentlichung in St. Petersburg 1911; Reprint Ch'eng-wen Publishing Taipeh 1967; reprinted 1977)
- The Story of Chang K'ien, China's Pioneer in Western Asia: Text and Translation of Chapter 123 of Ssi-Ma Ts'ien's Shi-Ki (1917)
- Native Sources for the History of Chinese Pictorial Art (1917)
- The Ancient History of China. To the End of the Chou Dynasty. (1923)
- Über ein chinesisches Konversations-Lexikon (= Zs.f.Bücherfreunde.9)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116915633 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Archived copy . Date of treatment June 3, 2011. Archived July 21, 2011.
Literature
- Eduard Erkes : Friedrich Hirth. In: Artibus Asiae. Vol. 2, No. 3 (1927), 218-221 (Nachruf)
- Festschrift für Friedrich Hirth zu seinem 75. Geburtstag 16. April 1920. Berlin 1920
- Hirth Anniversary Volume. London: Probsthain, [1923] (Asia major: Introductory Volume)
- Ta T'ung Shu. The One World Philosophy of K'ang Yu-wei. Tr. by Lawrence J. Thompson. L., 1958.
Links
- Bibliography
- Information on the IS ISRAN website