Wolfgang Leander Bauer ( Chinese trad. 鮑 吾 剛 , ex. 鲍 吾 刚 , pinyin : Bào Wúgāng , 1930-1997) - German Sinologist .
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| A country |  Germany |
| Scientific field | Sinology |
| Place of work | Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (1954-1997) |
| Alma mater | Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich |
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| supervisor | Herbert Franke |
| Known as | Historian of Chinese philosophy, researcher of utopia |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Major works
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in the family of the famous semitologist Hans Bauer and Eugenia Kershbaumer. In 1937, Wolfgang orphaned. He graduated from Wilhelm High School in Halle, after finishing secondary education he seriously chose between medicine and painting. In the winter of 1948, he entered the newly founded East Asia Institute of Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. In addition to Chinese, he studied Mongolian and Japanese, as well as Manchu - the official language of the last imperial dynasty of China , Sanskrit and Tibetan - preparing himself for the career of a universal orientalist.
In 1953, Bauer received his doctorate at the age of 23, and entered the university as an assistant. In 1959 he underwent a rehabilitation procedure. He also taught in Frankfurt . In 1960, he spent a year at the University of Michigan as a visiting professor. Subsequently, he was invited to Harvard, Yale, Columbia universities, the universities of Berkeley and Seattle (where there was a powerful Sovietological school, which was also involved in sinology). Under a grant from the Carnegie Endowment in 1962, he first visited Taiwan and Japan, where he visited regularly.
In 1962-1966 he worked at the University of Heidelberg, where he received an invitation to conduct a seminar at the Association of Chinese Studies. In 1966 he returned to Munich, where he was actively engaged in the problems of the Chinese Cultural Revolution , having received the post of professor. In 1981-1983 he headed the faculty of archeology and cultural studies, several times (intermittently) was elected director of the Munich Institute for the Study of East Asia. In 1985 he was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy, and in 1991 - a corresponding member of the Westphalian Academy in Dusseldorf. In 1997 he was awarded the Federal Cross "For Merit" of the I degree .
Major works
- China und die Hoffnung auf Glück (1971)
- Das Antlitz Chinas (1990).
- Geschichte der chinesischen Philosophie (2001).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119243628 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Links
- Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer. Zum Tode von Wolfgang Bauer (02.23.1930-14.01.1997) // Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens. Heft 161/162 (1997), S. 25-29.