Ferdinand Lessing
Ferdinand Diedrich Lessing (born February 26, 1882 in Essen-Altenessen ; † December 31, 1961 in Berkeley , California ) was a German and later American sinologist , Mongolist and expert on Lamaism .
He graduated from high school in 1902 at the Georgianum Gymnasium (Lingen) . He took from 1930 to 1933 at the Chinese-Swedish expedition of Sven Hedin part and worked there as a team with Gosta Montell . Together with Wilhelm Othmer , he wrote a Chinese textbook that was popular at the time, the “Course of Northern Chinese Colloquial Language” printed in Qingdao in 1912 (see Lessing-Othmer System ), and he is also the author of a Mongolian-English dictionary. Lessing taught in Berlin, emigrated from Germany in 1938 and then taught in Berkeley. In 1946, he became a US citizen.
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literature
- Ferdinand Lessing: Mongols, shepherds, priests and demons. Klinkhardt & Biermann Verlag Berlin 1935.
- Ferdinand Lessing / Wilhelm Othmer, course in North Chinese colloquial language, German-Chinese printing company and Walter Schmidt publishing house, Tsingtau 1912.
- Gösta Montell : Ethnographic Research. In: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 1935, Gotha 1935, pp. 294–295.
- Ferdinand Lessing and Gösta Montell : Yung-Ho-Kung, an Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Beijing: With Notes on Lamaist Mythology and Cult. In: Reports from Scientific Expedition to the North-western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. The Sino-Swedish Expedition. Publ. 18. Part VIII. Ethnography. 1, Stockholm 1942.
- Helmut Martin and Christiane Hammer (eds.): China sciences - German language developments. History, people, perspectives. Communications from the Institute for Asian Studies Hamburg, Bd. 303. Hamburg: Institute for Asian Studies 1999.
- Hartmut Walravens : Ferdinand Lessing (1882–1961): Sinologist, Mongolist and expert on Lamaism; Material on life and work; with the correspondence with Sven Hedin. Wagener edition, 2nd edition Melle 2006.
- Hartmut Walravens : Ferdinand Lessing (1882–1961), a specialist in China, Mongolia and Lamaism. In: The Middle Kingdom - in the middle. Studies of Berlin sinologists. Published by Florian C. Reiter. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006. Pages 47–59. ISBN 978-3-447-05432-4
- Skutella, Martin / Viedebantt, Oskar [Hrsg.]: The Lingen high school graduates 1832–1933 / edit on the basis of the files. by Martin Skutella. With an appendix, ed. by Oskar Viedebantt In: Georgiana Lingensia: Nachrichten vom Lingener Gymnasium Georgianum, Heft 2, Lingen 1933
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Lessing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publishing prospectus with biographical information
- University of California: Ferdinand Diedrich Lessing, Oriental Languages: Berkeley
- SUB Goettingen
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SURNAME | Lessing, Ferdinand |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lessing, Ferdinand Diedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American sinologist, Mongolist and expert on Lamaism |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1882 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Eating old people |
DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1961 |
Place of death | Berkeley, California |