China Institute at the University of Frankfurt

The China Institute in Frankfurt am Main is an institution of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University there . The institute, founded in 1925, is now part of the Institute for Oriental and East Asian Philologies .

history

The establishment of the China Institute and Sinology goes back to the important sinologist and translator of Chinese classics Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930). In 1924 Richard Wilhelm was awarded an honorary professorship and a teaching position for China and China Studies from the University of Frankfurt, after Wilhelm had already been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt in 1922. In 1925 Wilhelm founded the China Institute. The aim was to convey Chinese culture and to facilitate understanding between China and Germany. Among other things, the journal Sinica was published at the China Institute from 1925 to 1942 , the first two years under the title Chinese papers for science and art .

From 1936 the institute was housed in the Villa Grunelius on Frankfurter Untermainkai . The villa and the institute's libraries were destroyed by air raids in March 1944 . Parts of the art collection had been relocated and escaped destruction. These parts of the collection were transferred to the holdings of the Frankfurt Museum of Ethnology and the University's Sinology Department. After Erwin Rousselle's death in 1949, the institute was suspended until a new Sinology chair was established in 1973. On the initiative of Tsung-Tung Chang , it was revived as a registered association.

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• 1925–1930: Richard Wilhelm , founder and director of the institute until his death
• 1931–1942: Erwin Rousselle
• 1942–1944: Carl Philipp Hentze
• 1945–1949: Erwin Rousselle, acting institute director until his death
• 1949–1962: Adolf Jensen , acting head (Jensen was director of the Völkerkundemuseum and professor for culture and ethnology at the University of Frankfurt)
• 1962–1972: Otto Karow , acting head (Karow was a full professor at the chair for East Asian Philologies and Cultural Studies at the University of Frankfurt, he expanded the department to three professorships: Japanese Studies , Sinology and Southeast Asian Studies )
• 1973-2000: Tsung-Tung Chang
• 2005–2007: Georg Ebertshäuser
• Since 2007: Iwo Amelung

Web links

• Official website of the China Institute in Frankfurt am Main
• Sinology at the University of Frankfurt am Main
• Early newspaper articles on the China Institute of the University of Frankfurt in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} History of the China Institute ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2014 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. on the institute website.  
2. ↑ Sinica , monthly for customer China and China Research, Frankfurt am Main, ISSN  0935-2260
3. ↑ The institute under Rousselle and Hentze  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Sinology at the University of Frankfurt am Main  
4. ↑ The Frankfurt Sinology from the end of the Second World War to the year 2000  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Sinology at the University of Frankfurt am Main  
5. ^ Hans Dettmer: In Memoriam Otto Karow . In: Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (NOAG), No. 149–150 (1991), pp. 7–8.