Bruno Lewin

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Bruno Lewin (born July 18, 1924 in Berlin ; † June 18, 2012 in Hilden ) was a German Japanologist , Koreanist and linguist . As a professor he taught at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

From 1946 Lewin studied Slavic studies , philosophy and general linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Already at this time he began to study Chinese. From 1948 he studied Japanese studies under Martin Ramming . After graduating with a degree in 1950, he first worked as a foreign language editor for a Berlin publishing house on language didactic publications, including several textbooks and a grammar for the Russian language.

In 1952 he resumed his studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Here he studied Japanese studies with Horst Hammitzsch , Sinology with Walter Fuchs and Herbert Franke , and Slavic studies with Erwin Koschmieder and Wilhelm Lettenbauer . In 1954 he received his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on the subject of Futabatei Shimei in its relations with Russian literature , and in 1959 he received his habilitation from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on the topic of Aya and Hata : Population groups of ancient Japan of continental origin .

After completing his habilitation, Lewin, who had previously taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, first worked as a lecturer in East Asian philology, and from 1962 as a scientific adviser and professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

In 1964 he was appointed as the first professor at the East Asia Institute of the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum, where he worked until his retirement in 1989. One year after his appointment, he established Korean Studies as a separate subject. From 1981 he played a key role in the establishment of the Japonicum at the National Language Institute, on whose board of directors he sat until 1991.

In 1974 he became the first Japanologist to become a full member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . In the same year he was elected Vice President of the newly founded European Association for Japanese Studies . He held this office until 1978. In 1980 and 1981 he was Vice President of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe.

Lewin taught as visiting professor in 1967 at the University of Michigan , 1970 at the University of Minnesota , from 1975 to 1976 at the University of Zurich , and from 1981 to 1982 at the State Institute for Japanese Literature ( Japanese 国 文学 研究 資料 館 Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan ) in Tokyo . As part of a university partnership, he also taught a total of three times at the University of Tokyo .

In 1996 he was honored for his work with the Order of the Holy Treasure on the necklace with golden rays. The European Association for Japanese Studies made him an honorary member.

research

Lewin researched primarily in the areas of linguistic Japanology and Korean studies, where he dealt in particular with the linguistic relationships between Japan and Korea and the origins of the Japanese language. He wrote numerous textbooks for Japanese and Korean , and in his early years also for Russian .

In 1989 he published his language and writing of Japan in the Handbuch der Orientalistik , which became a standard work in Japanese studies.

Lewin contributed to numerous reference books, including the Brockhaus Encyclopedia , the Encyclopedia of Japan, and the Japan Handbuch . As a translator, he translated parts of Shoku Nihongi and Nihon Kōki into German in 1962 .

Fonts

As an author
  • Outline of Japanese grammar based on the classical written language. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1959.
  • Aya and Hata: Population groups of ancient Japan of continental origin (= studies on Japanese studies. Vol. 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1962.
  • The Korean part in the development of Japan (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, lectures. G 215). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976.
  • Contemplation and linguistics in premodern Japan (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, lectures. G 258). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1982.
  • (with Wolfram Müller-Yokota and Michio Fujiwara) Introduction to the Japanese language. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983.
  • (with Wolfram Müller-Yokota and Jürgen Stalph) Text book of the Japanese language. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987.
  • Language and writing of Japan (= Handbook of Oriental Studies. Division 5: Japan. Volume 1: General, language and writing. Section 2). Brill, Leiden 1989.
As editor
  • Small dictionary of Japanese studies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1968.
  • Red foliage. Old Japanese poetry . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1972.
  • Japanese dramas . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1968. (with dramas by Matsuyo Akimoto, Masakazu Yamazaki , Junji Kinoshita , Ken Miyamoto and Kōbō Abe )

literature

  • Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (ed.): Bruno Lewin in honor - Festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Volume 1: Contributions to linguistic and literary studies. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-766-0 .
  • Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (ed.): Bruno Lewin in honor - Festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Volume 2: Historical and cultural studies contributions. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-761-X .
  • Hyun-jae Lee: Lewin, advocate of Korean culture in Europe, dies at 87. In: The Korea Herald online. June 28, 2012.
  • Sven Osterkamp: In memory of Bruno Lewin. Homepage of the Language and Literature Section of Japan at the Ruhr University Bochum, August 9, 2012.
  • Jürgen Stalph: Bruno Lewin in memory. In: Japonica Humboldtiana. Vol. 15 (2012), pp. 5–28 (with list of publications).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bruno Lewin's curriculum vitae on the website of the Language and Literature section of Japan at the Ruhr University Bochum.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit : The East Asian scholar Bruno Lewin. In: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit: Bruno Lewin in honor - Festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Volume 1: Contributions to linguistic and literary studies . Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-766-0 , pp. IX-XVI.
  3. ↑ a b Sven Osterkamp: In memory of Bruno Lewin. Homepage of the Language and Literature Section of Japan at the Ruhr University Bochum, August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association for Korean Studies in Europe website.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akse.uni-kiel.de
  5. ^ History of the EAJS: Honorary Members , website of the European Association for Japanese Studies.
personal data
SURNAME Lewin, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist, Koreanist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2012
Place of death Hilden