Hans-Peter Vietze

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Hans-Peter Vietze (born March 15, 1939 in Dresden ; died October 9, 2008 ) was a German Mongolist .

biography

Vietze studied Mongolian , Turkic and Altai Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1963 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of the expression of the plural in the “Secret History of the Mongols” . From 1963 to 1964 he worked as an interpreter and translator in Mongolia . In 1973 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on theory and materials for the automatic processing of Mongolian language data .

In 1976 Vietze received a professorship for Mongolian Studies at the Humboldt University. In the following years he held visiting professorships at Rikkyō University in Tokyo and at Washington University in Seattle . After the annexation of the GDR to the FRG , he was the first freely elected head of the Department of Asian Studies at Humboldt University.

In the early 2000s he worked as a freelance translator and consultant a. a. for the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal Criminal Police Office . In 2002 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Mongolia.

Works (selection)

  • German-Mongolian conversation book . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1963.
  • Mongolian language textbook . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1969.
  • German – Mongolian dictionary . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1981, ³1987.
  • Mongolian-German dictionary . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1988; ISBN 3-324-00336-9 (approx. 50,000 entries).
  • Declining dictionary of the Mongolian language . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1976.
  • (with Erich Mater and Herwig Zeuner) Declining dictionary on Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca'an (Secret History of the Mongols) . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1969.
  • (with Ludwig Zenker and Ingrid Warnke) Declining dictionary of the Turkish language . Leipzig: Encyclopedia, 1975.
  • The grammatical means and forms used to express the majority of nouns in the Secret History of the Mongols . Dissertation. Berlin: Humboldt University, 1963.
  • (Editor) The Revolutionary Path of the Mongolian People's Republic to Socialism. Problems of circumventing the capitalist stage of development. Materials from a scientific conference with international participation, which was organized by the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin in cooperation with the Karl-Marx-Universitat Leipzig and the Central Council for Asian, African and Latin American Studies in the GDR from December 16-18, 1975 in Berlin was organized . Berlin: Academy, 1978.
  • (Editor) The Mongolian People's Republic. Historical change in Central Asia . Berlin: Dietz, 1982.
  • Mongolian scripts in the computer. In: Central Asiatic Journal , Vol. 32, No. 1/2 (1988), pp. 117-130.
  • An example of the processing of Central Asian writing systems in a mainframe computer. In: Central Asiatic Journal , Vol. 32, No. 3/4 (1988), pp. 272-278.
  • Malefactors in ancient Mongolia. In: Mongolian Studies , Vol. 14, The Hangin Memorial Issue (1991), pp. 199-204.
  • inu and anu in the Secret History of the Mongols. In: Edward H. Kaplan, Donald W. Whisenhunt (eds.): Opuscula Altaica. Essays Presented in Honor of Henry Schwarz ; Pp. 651-654.
  • The Title of the "Secret History of the Mongols". In: Central Asiatic Journal , Vol. 39, No. 2 (1995), pp. 303-309.
  • Advice for questioning Asian accused . Berlin: Dao, 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Vietze, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Mongolist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2008