Christoph Harbsmeier

Christoph Harbsmeier ( Chinese  何 莫邪 , Pinyin Hé Mòxié ; born April 16, 1946 in Göttingen , Germany ) is a German sinologist associated with the University of Oslo .

biography

From 1966 to 1973 Harbsmeier studied Chinese at Merton College at Oxford University . In 1981 he received his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on Classical Chinese : Aspects of Classical Chinese Syntax . From 1973 to 1976 he taught at Penang University in Malaysia . In 1980 he took up a position at the University of Oslo and in 1985 became a professor.

Teaching and research stays took him to the National University of Singapore , the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin , the University of Hong Kong , the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris , the University of Heidelberg , the University of Princeton , the Fudan -University in Shanghai , the Shanghai University of Education, the University of Peking , the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou , the University of Leuven , the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, the Collegium Budapest , the University of Chicago , the University of Washington in Seattle , the Eastern China University of Education in Shanghai, Charles University in Prague , the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the University of Wuhan, the University of California in Berkeley , the University of Michigan , the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala and the Chinese Hong Kong University ,

2005 was Harbsmeier with the research award of the University of Oslo; In 2008 he received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for excellent research. He is co-editor of the Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (Paris).

Works

• Aspects of Classical Chinese Syntax , London: Curzon Press, 1981.
• Language and Logic in Traditional China (= Science and Civilization in China), vol. 7.3, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Social Realism with a Buddhist Face: The Cartoonist Feng Zikai , Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1985. (Two Chinese translations of this have been published, one in 2001 and the other in 2004, second edition 2005)
• Confucius and the robber Zhi , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1978.
• Irrefutable Conjectures . In: Monumenta Serica 64.2 (December 2016) pp. 445–504. (An important contribution to the reconstruction of ancient Chinese.)