To Chung-gun

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 안중근
Hanja 安 重 根
Revised
Romanization 		To Jung-geun
McCune-
Reischauer 		To Chunggun

An Chung-gun (also: Ahn Chunggun , An Jung-geun ; born September 2, 1879 in Haeju , then Korea , now North Korea ; † March 26, 1910 in Port Arthur , then the Empire of China , now the People 's Republic of China ) was a Korean Pan-Asianist and nationalist . He is best known for his assassination attempt on the Japanese politician Itō Hirobumi in 1909.

biography

Born and raised in Haeju , An himself joined the armed resistance at a young age against attempts to place Korea under alien control. During this time he converted to Catholicism under the influence of a priest friend .

On October 26, 1909, An shot and killed the former Governor General of the Japanese Protectorate of Korea, Itō Hirobumi , at the train station in Harbin , Manchuria . An was arrested by Russian security forces and later given into Japanese custody. During his imprisonment he wrote several writings, including his essay “On Peace in East Asia”, in which he presented himself as an advocate of a united East Asian sphere. He also created numerous calligraphic works. On March 26, 1910, An was executed on the gallows in Lüshun prison in Port Arthur .

To this day he is considered a folk hero in parts of Korea, in addition to numerous books and films, the 6th form of Taekwondo (Chung-Gun-Hyong; 32 movements) also bears his name.

literature

  • Lee Eun-jeung (2003): Ahn Choong Kun as a symbol of “being Korean”: Forms and changes in the Korean discourse on self-assertion . In: German Institute for Japanese Studies (Ed.): Self-assertion discourses in Asia: China - Japan - Korea . Volume 34, 2003, iudicium Verlag, Munich, pp. 391-415 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benedict Anderson: Under three Flags - Anarchism and Anti-Colonial Imaginations, p. 75 , 2005, Verso-Verlag
  2. ↑ An Chung-gun: "On Peace in East Asia" (東洋 平和 論) , 1910
  3. ↑ on the biographical data cf. Donald Keene : Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 . Columbia University Press , 2002, ISBN 0-231-12340-X , pp. 662-667.
  4. ↑ Korea Times: Trial and Execution of Ahn, August 14, 2009
personal data
SURNAME On, Chung-gun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 안중근 (Hangeul); 安 重 根 (Hanja); An, Jung-geun (Revised Romanization); An, Chunggun (McCune-Reischauer); Ahn Chunggun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean pan-Asianist and nationalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Haeju , then Korea , now North Korea
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1910
Place of death Port Arthur , then the Empire of China , now the People 's Republic of China