Frank Fiedeler

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Frank Fiedeler (born June 7, 1939 in Munich , † July 13, 2004 in Berlin ), a grandson of Hermann Fiedeler , was a German sinologist .

Life

After school and high school years with High School (1958) at the Old Grammar School in Munich - Schwabing he started at the University of Tuebingen , first German and English literature to study, soon changed but the study of Sinology , Philosophy and Religious Studies , which he with different priorities and different duration continued at the universities in Munich , Bonn , Berlin , Würzburg and graduated in Erlangen . There doctoratehe was awarded a Dr. phil. (by Hans Steininger ) with a work on a Daoist text, the so-called Huà-Shū (化 書) ( Book of Metamorphosis ). A research grant from the Volkswagen Foundation enabled him to spend several years doing research (1967 to 1969) in Taiwan , where he was a student of a Taoist master to study and research shamanism . Through him he was introduced to the traditional contexts of interpretation and the interpretation practice of the oldest of the classical Chinese texts , the oracle system of the so-called Yijing (易經) ( Book of Changes ). The research of Yijing , its cultural and intellectual history origins as cosmology in the religion and philosophy of ancient Chinese formed the focus of his scientific work, which he published in several individual studies on partial aspects, in book and magazine articles.

With his annotated (new) translation of Yijing , Fiedeler presented his magnum opus in 1996 , which, like the famous first translation into German (1924) by Richard Wilhelm, was published by the same publisher ( Diederichs ). Fiedelers transmission attempts behind the - rather Confucian mediating traditions of interpretation - translation Wilhelms go back to older relationships with more Taoist expose influenced traditions. His approach to interpretation derives the original meanings of the 64 hexagrams from cosmological ideas of early Chinese times, which can be reconstructed as a systematic representation of the phases of the moon and understood as a model of symbolic understanding of the world. The archaic oracle is thus - to put it in a modern way - a quasi-experimental testing of thought and interpretation content that simulates the process of decision-making in symbolic form. The peculiar logic of Yijing as well as its formal structure not only support the meaning and interpretation of the oracle sayings, but also identify the Book of Changes as a very early example of great poetry and a linguistic work of art of high standing.

Fiedeler lived as a private scholar, freelance author and translator in Berlin.

Fonts

  • Hua-shu, the book of transformation. Presentation of the teaching and translation of the text. A contribution to understanding Chinese philosophy. E. Schmitt et al. M. Meyer, Würzburg 1967 (Dissertation Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • The turn. Approach of a genetic anthropology based on the I-Ching system . Kristkeitz, Berlin 1976. ISBN 3-921508-01-0
  • The moons of the I-went. Symbol creation and evolution in the Book of Changes . Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Munich 1988. ISBN 3-424-00922-9 ( Diederichs yellow series China, No. 72)
  • Logic of Signs in the Book of Changes. In: Roland Posner (ed.): Culture of drawing in Asia . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1991, pp. 95-121. ( Journal for Semiotics , Vol. 13, Issue 1–2)
  • Yin and yang. The basic cosmic pattern in the cultural forms of China . DuMont, Cologne 1993. 2nd edition 1995. ISBN 3-7701-2901-6 ( DuMont pocket books Aussereuropean Kunst und Kultur, Vol. 301)
  • Yijing. The Book of Changes. For the first time decoded from scratch and translated from the original Chinese text . Munich: Diederichs, 1996. ISBN 3-424-01344-7
  • Yin and Yang or the absolute polarity. In: Peter C. Mayer-Tasch (Ed.): The signs of nature. Nature symbolism and holistic experience . Insel, Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1998, pp. 215-269.
  • Yin and yang. The basic cosmic pattern in the culture of China . Diederichs, Kreuzlingen 2003. ISBN 3-7205-2388-8 ( Diederichs yellow series China, no. 174)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Fiedeler: Yijing. The Book of Changes . Diederichs, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-424-01344-7
  2. ^ Richard Wilhelm: I Ching. The book of changes , Diederichs (1st edition Jena 1924), Düsseldorf / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-424-00061-2
personal data
SURNAME Fiedeler, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2004
Place of death Berlin