Bruno Schindler

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Bruno Schindler (born October 16, 1882 in Leschnitz ; died July 29, 1964 in London ) was a German-British sinologist .

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Schindler attended secondary school in Gleiwitz until 1903 and studied history, political economy and constitutional law in Berlin and Breslau . From 1907 to 1910 was Moses Gaster's private secretary in England . There he discovered his fondness for oriental languages , especially for Chinese . He received his doctorate in 1919 with a thesis on religion in early China under August Conrady .

Published in 1930 by Asia Major.

In the same year he married his wife Alma Ehrlich, who actively supported him in founding the Asia Major publishing house in 1920 . The eponymous journal Asia Major , edited by him , is considered one of the most authoritative in early European sinology. Later on, Schindler also made it possible for the magazines Armeniaca , Causasica and Islamica to appear .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he emigrated to England in 1933. In London he was a co-founder of the Regents Park School, where Jewish children who had emigrated also found a school.

Works

  • The priesthood in ancient China. I. part. Kingship and priesthood in ancient China. Introduction and sources (= treatises of the State Research Institute for Ethnology in Leipzig. I. Series, Volume 3). Leipzig 1919.
  • The development of the Chinese conceptions of supreme beings . Leipzig 1922 ( discussion by v. Zach )
  • To the particle 惟. In: Asia Major. Volume 3, 1926, pp. 575-584.
  • About some old Chinese auxiliary words. 3. 其 k'i 厥 küeh, 乃 nai and 之 chi. In: Asia Major. Volume 9, 1932, pp. 643-657.
  • List of Publications by Professor Walter Simon. In: Asia Major (New Series). Volume 10, 1963, pp. 1-8.
  • (Ed.) Hirth Anniversary Volume . London 1923

literature

  • Walter Simon: "Obituary of Dr. Bruno Schindler". Asia Major (New Series), Volume 11, No. 2, 1965, pp. 93-100, PDF
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Schindler, Bruno , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1032

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personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Leschnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1964
Place of death London