Eberhard Friese

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Eberhard Friese (born April 30, 1940 in Schmiedeberg ; died April 16, 2004 in Nordhausen ) was a German Japanologist and Siebold expert.

life and work

Eberhard Friese was expelled from home in 1946. The family eventually settled in Staufenberg in Hesse. Friese studied German, history, journalism, Japanese studies and Chinese studies in Marburg, Hamburg, Berlin and Bochum. In Bochum he earned his master's degree with a thesis on the Otogizōshi. In 1970 he became head of the Japanese library at the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Bochum and remained that way until he retired in 2000.

In 1970 the Bochum library received the materials on Japan researcher Philipp Franz von Siebold from the "West German Library" in Marburg, which came from the former Japan Institute in Berlin . Studying these materials led to a doctoral thesis on Siebold as an early East Asian scholar (1982). Friese then also dealt with Siebold's sons, Alexander and Heinrich von Siebold . Friese is also to thank for an annotated new edition of the travelogue of the Swedish botanist and researcher Karl Peter Thunberg (1734-1828).

He worked with Hartmut Walravens on his exhibition on Fritz Rumpf : “You understand our hearts well. Fritz Rumpf (1888-1949) in the field of tension in German-Japanese cultural relations. ”(1989). He worked with the art historian Setsuko Kuwabara on a facsimile edition of the graphic portfolio "From Japan" ( ISBN 4-8419-0156-6 ) by Emil Orlik, which was created on his trip to Japan (1900-1901). The new editions of the two books "95 Heads from Orlik" and "New 95 Heads from Orlik" with prefaces to "Emil Orlik, a portraitist of the intellectual Berlin" and biographical notes "Book of Friendship and Mirror of Time: Orlik's Head Collection" gave Friese and Kuwabara 1998 (Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-7861-2272-5 ).

After retiring until his untimely death, Friese was less concerned with Japan and more with the history of a former homeland.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Otogizōshi (御 伽 草 子, literally: "entertainment book", "sociable books") are popular, consistently anonymous stories from the Muromachi period .
  2. ↑ The "West German Library" housed the holdings of the former Prussian State Library until they were transferred to (West) Berlin to the newly built State Library there.

Fonts (selection)

  • Philipp Franz von Siebold as an early exponent of East Asian Studies. In: Berlin contributions to social and economic research on Japan. Vol. 15. Bochum 1983, ISBN 3-88339-315-0 .
  • World culture and resistance. Wilhelm Solf 50 years †, Bonn 1986.
  • The Japan Institute in Berlin (1926–1945), messages from OAG 139-142 (1988).
  • Kurt Meißner, New German Biography, Volume 16 from 1990,
  • Karl Peter Thunberg: Journey through part of Europe, Africa and Asia, mainly in Japan, in the years 1770–1779. Berlin, Haude and Spener, 1794. (Reprint, edited and introduced by Eberhard Friese. Manutius Verlag, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-925678-15-8 )
  • “120 Years of OAG - A Society Makes Science History”, in: Lutz Walter (Ed.), Japan seen through the eyes of the West. Printed European maps from the early 16th to the 19th century, Munich / NY, 1994, pp. 9–11.

literature

  • Hartmut Walravens: Eberhard Friese in memory . Bochum, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Friese, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiedeberg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2004
Place of death Nordhausen