Carl von Weegmann

Oskar Carl Weegmann , from 1907 von Weegmann (born January 15, 1879 in Cologne , † May 5, 1960 in Tokyo ) was a German specialist in German , art historian and Japanologist .

Life

Weegmann was the son of Carl Weegmann (1848-1916), royal Prussian police chief in Cologne , who was raised to the Prussian nobility on August 1, 1907 with his descendants , and the banker's daughter Antoinette Stein (1853-1933).

He studied natural sciences and art history first at the University of Heidelberg , later at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he completed his studies in 1909 and was with his dissertation Architecture and Sculpture of the early Renaissance in Regensburg. A contribution to the history of art in the early 16th century (Verlag Sachs, Munich 1909) for Dr. phil. PhD .

He came to Japan in 1914 as a volunteer assistant at the Völkerkundemuseum Munich . As a lieutenant in the reserve , Weegmann took part in the siege of Tsingtau from August 1914 as part of the 1st Company of the East Asian Marine Detachment (OMD) . After the conquest of Tsingtau by Japanese forces , he was taken prisoner in Japan in November 1914 . After his release in December 1919, at the invitation of the Japanese government, he stayed in the country, conducted art-historical research on Japanology and taught at various universities as a lecturer in German language and literature .

So he first taught at the high school in Matsuyama . In 1922 he went to the Imperial Military Academy in Tokyo and in 1929 transferred to the local military college . After World War II , he taught at Nihon College Medical School , Seikei University, and others.

In addition, from 1926 until his death (1960) he was a board member (from 1926), first research assistant (from March 1927) and secretary and librarian (before 1939) of the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia (OAG for short) in Tokyo and shaped the OAG's newsletters as an editor and author. After a compulsory six-year break (1939–1945) due to the Second World War, the OAG was reconstituted on November 14, 1951 at an extraordinary general meeting in the German restaurant “Ketel” in Tokyo. Weegmann was elected as the new chairman by the 50 or more members who remained in the country and who took part in the new founding assembly. He was the only member of the pre-war board remaining in Japan and thus stood for continuity and tradition of society.

Honors

1954: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B. Volume VIII, p. 450, Volume 41 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1968.
The Japan Times: year book 1933. Japan Times & Mail, Tokyo 1933.
Kurt Meissner: Carl von Weegmann †. In: NOAG (News of the East Asian Society). Volume 87, 1960, p. 3 ( excerpt )

Web links

Literature by and about Carl von Weegmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Works directory on Google books
Short biography of Carl Weegmann. In: Tsingtau and Japan 1914-1920 - Historically Biographical Project. Retrieved March 24, 2016 .

Individual evidence

^ Douglas M. Kenrick: A Century of Western Studies of Japan. The First Hundred Years of the Asiatic Society of Japan 1872-1972. Asiatic Society of Japan (Ed.), 1978, p. 211 ( excerpt )
↑ Ludwig von Buerkel (ed.): Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. Volume 11, Prestel Verlag, 1970, p. 73. ( excerpt )
↑ Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit: Cultural relations between Japan and the West since 1853. Iudicium Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-89129-398-4 .
↑ Yasuo Ariizumi: A small cultural exchange between Japanese and Germans through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In: Karl Anton Sprengard, Suejirō Ono, Yasuo Ariizumi (eds.): Germany and Japan in the 20th century. 2002, p. 107 ( digitized version )
^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility B. Volume VIII, p. 450.
^ NOAG (News of the East Asian Society). Issues 179–182, Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia (Hamburg), German Society for Nature and Ethnology (Tokyo) (Ed.), 2006, p. 57 ( excerpt )
^ Report on the OAG

personal data
SURNAME	Weegmann, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist, art historian and japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	May 5th 1960
Place of death	Tokyo , Japan

[1] Douglas M. Kenrick: A Century of Western Studies of Japan. The First Hundred Years of the Asiatic Society of Japan 1872-1972. Asiatic Society of Japan (Ed.), 1978, p. 211 ( excerpt )

[2] Ludwig von Buerkel (ed.): Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. Volume 11, Prestel Verlag, 1970, p. 73. ( excerpt )

[3] Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit: Cultural relations between Japan and the West since 1853. Iudicium Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-89129-398-4 .

[4] Yasuo Ariizumi: A small cultural exchange between Japanese and Germans through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In: Karl Anton Sprengard, Suejirō Ono, Yasuo Ariizumi (eds.): Germany and Japan in the 20th century. 2002, p. 107 ( digitized version )

[5] Genealogical handbook of the nobility B. Volume VIII, p. 450.

[6] NOAG (News of the East Asian Society). Issues 179–182, Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia (Hamburg), German Society for Nature and Ethnology (Tokyo) (Ed.), 2006, p. 57 ( excerpt )

[7] Report on the OAG