Alfred Forke
Alfred Forke (born January 12, 1867 in Schöningen ; † July 9, 1944 in Hamburg ) was a German sinologist .
He attended high school in Magdeburg. After studying law at the Universities of Geneva and Berlin, the first state examination in law and a doctorate to become a Dr. jur. In Rostock in 1889 as well as a previous linguistic training at the Seminar for Oriental Languages , Forke was an interpreter for Chinese in the consulate service in Beijing from 1890 to 1903 .
In 1903 he succeeded his former teacher Carl Arendt as a professor at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin . As Otto Franke's successor , he moved to the University of Hamburg in 1923 . There he headed the chair dedicated to China until 1935. In November 1933 he signed the declaration of the German professors to Adolf Hitler .
Forkes research focus was the Chinese philosophy . His three-volume history of Chinese philosophy is considered a "pioneering work".
Publications (selection)
- Chinese seal flowers
- Mê Ti : the social ethicist and his students' philosophical works (1922)
- Lun-Hang
- Thoughts of the Chinese Culture Area (1927)
- History of ancient Chinese philosophy (1927) ( excerpt from Google Books )
- History of Medieval Chinese Philosophy (1934) ( excerpt from Google Books )
- History of Modern Chinese Philosophy (1938) ( excerpt from Google Books )
- Chinese Dramas of the Yuan Dynasty: Ten Post- Edited Translations by Alfred Forke , edited by Martin Gimm . Wiebaden: Steiner, 1978
- Two Chinese Singspiele of the Qing Dynasty, edited by Martin Gimm , Wiesbaden, Steiner (1993)
- Eleven Chinese musical pieces from more recent times, along with two dramas in Western style, edited by Martin Gimm , Wiebaden, Steiner (1993)
literature
- Erich Haenisch : Alfred Forke , In: ZDMG, Volume 99 (1945–49) ULB Halle
- Herbert Franke: Forke, Ernst Conrad Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 300 ( digitized version ).
- Bergit Korschan-Kuhle: Forke, Ernst Conrad Alfred . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 182.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Forke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Alfred Forke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Literature by and about Alfred Forke in the catalog of the SUB Göttingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 62 (1953) 219.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forke, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sinologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schöningen , Duchy of Braunschweig, Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |