Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer

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Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (left) handing over the Bernward Psalter to the Herzog-August-Bibliothek with State Minister Lutz Stratmann (2007)

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (born June 24, 1948 in Bad Hersfeld ) is a German sinologist and was director of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel from 1993 to 2015 . Since 2016 he has been director of the China Centrum Tübingen (CCT).

Live and act

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer was born in 1948 as the first son of the general practitioner Hansgeorg Schmidt-Glintzer and his wife Erika Budgenhagen. In 1967 he made his Abitur at the classical grammar school "Alte Klosterschule" including Hebraicum. He studied Sinology, Philosophy, Ethnology, Sociology and Political Science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the University of Munich (LMU). In 1973 Wolfgang Bauer's student was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1973 he was on an overseas scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in Hsinchu (Taiwan) at the Chinese Language Institute and as a research fellow at the Academia Sinica in Nankang (Taipei). He then spent about half a year as a research student at the Institute for Humanistic Studies (Jimbun kagaku kenyûshô) in Kyoto , Japan. In 1979 he completed his habilitation in Sinology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn . In 1981 he was appointed full professor (chair) for East Asian culture and linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . At the end of October 1985 he took part as a special guest in the government delegation of the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in Beijing and Guangzhou.

In 1993 he was appointed university professor at the University of Göttingen for East Asian literary and cultural studies as well as the associated assumption of the position of director of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Schmidt-Glintzer was retired from these offices at the end of June 2015; His previous deputy Thomas Stäcker has taken over the management on an interim basis. His designated successor is Peter Burschel . Since July 1, 2015 Schmidt-Glintzer has been a Senior Fellow at the Göttingen Lichtenberg-Kolleg with a research project on the modernization and cultural identity of China. Since April 2016 he has been senior professor at the university and director of the China Centrum Tübingen (CCT).

Schmidt-Glintzer has been a full member of the humanities class of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft since 1999, a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz since 2002 and a corresponding member of the Philological and Historical Class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2004 .

Fonts (selection)

As an author

  • The "Hung ming chi" and the acceptance of Buddhism in China (= Munich East Asian Studies: Volume 12). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-515-02363-1 (also dissertation, LMU Munich 1973).
  • The Identity of Buddhist Schools and the Compilation of Universal Buddhist Stories in China. A contribution to the intellectual history of the Sung period (= Munich East Asian Studies. Volume 26). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-515-03328-9 (also habilitation, University of Bonn 1979).
  • History of Chinese Literature. From the beginning to the present. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45337-6 .
  • Sinology in the Federal Republic of Germany, West Berlin and in the German Democratic Republic in 1990 (= European Association of Chinese Studies - Association Européen d'Études Chinoises: Newsletter, Volume 3). 1990.
  • Ancient China. From the beginning to the 19th century; with 4 cards. (= CH Beck Wissen. Volume 2015). 5th edition. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-45115-7 .
  • China. Multi-ethnic and unitary state (= Beck's historical library ). Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42348-5 .
  • The new China. From the Opium Wars until today. (= CH Beck Wissen. Volume 2126). 5th, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-44726-6 .
  • History of China up to the Mongol conquest. 250 BC BC – 1279 AD (= Oldenbourg Outline of History . Volume 26). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56403-X .
  • We and China, China and We. Cultural identity and modernity in the age of globalization (= Essen cultural and scientific lectures. Volume 6). Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-426-9 .
  • Buddhism. (= CH Beck Wissen. Volume 2367). 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-50867-7 .
  • with Jan Assmann and Ekkehart Krippendorff: Ma'at, Konfuzius, Goethe. Three lessons for real life. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-458-17248-3 .
  • Little history of China. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57066-7 .
  • Prosperity, happiness and long life. China's gods and order in the Middle Kingdom. Verlag der Welteligionen im Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-71018-9 .
  • China's fear of freedom. The long way into the modern age (= Becksche series. Volume 1661). Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59346-8
  • China - a challenge for the west. Plea for a differential cultural competence. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06583-2 .
  • Mao Zedong . There will be a fight. A biography . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-365-0 .
  • China's empty center. The identity of China and global modernity. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-633-0 .
  • Article in China in the focus of the 21st century , edited by Tobias Loitsch , Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-59670-8

As editor

Monographs

  • Mo Ti: writings . Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1975.
  1. Solidarity and general philanthropy. ISBN 3-424-00509-6 .
  2. Against the war. ISBN 3-424-00510-X .
  • with Chiao Wei and Zhang Yushu: China texts. Annotated text collection on Chinese language studies for advanced learners . Hermann Kessler Verlag für Sprachmethodik, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1986, ISBN 3-8018-0054-7 .
  • Chinese manichaica. With text-critical comments and a glossary (= Studies in Oriental Religions. Volume 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02624-3 .
  • The other China. Festschrift for Wolfgang Bauer for his 65th birthday on February 23, 1995 (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. Volume 62). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03659-1 .
  • with Karl-Heinz Golzio: Max Weber: Complete Edition . Dept. I, Volume 20: The Business Ethics of World Religions. Hinduism and Buddhism 1916–1920. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-16-146485-0 .
  • Erhart Kästner : "You travel to find the world habitable". Images of life and admiration. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-458-17194-0 .
  • with Achim Mittag and Jörn Rüsen: Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology. Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Perspective (= Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography. Volume 1). Brill, Leiden 2005, ISBN 90-04-14237-1 .
  • with Hans-Joachim Simm: The religions of the world. An almanac for the opening of the World Religions Publishing House. 2nd Edition. Verlag der Welteligionen im Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-72000-3 .

Rows

As translator

  • Hellmut Wilhelm : The Interplay of Image and Concept in the Book of Changes. In: Ders .: Meaning of the "I Ching". (= Diederich's Yellow Series. Volume 12). 3. Edition. Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-424-00572-X , pp. 188-219.
  • Saeculum . Yearbook for Universal History , Volume 23 (1972), Issue 4, ISSN  0080-5319 .
    • James H. Zimmerman: Time in Chinese Historiography. Pp. 332-350.
    • Michael Freeman: The Development of "historical criticism" (shih-p'ing) and the "New History" of the Northern Sung. Pp. 351-373.
    • Jonathan Spence : Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China. Pp. 379-425.

Web links

Commons : Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilman Spengler : China. Happiness is not just hearing the dogs barking from the neighboring village. In: The time . October 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Schmidt-Glintzer will conduct research in Göttingen in the future. (PDF) press release. In: HAB.de , June 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ Employees by department. In: HAB.de , accessed on July 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Peter Burschel is appointed the new director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Press release. In: MWK .Niedersachsen.de , July 14, 2015.
  5. ^ Member entry of Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ Also in Spanish, Bulgarian and Korean translations.
  7. ↑ a b Also in Italian translation.
  8. ↑ The State, Fear and Freedom ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Book review at the Goethe Institute (China) , January 2010.
  9. ↑ https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662596708 China in the focus of the 21st century, Springer Gabler.
  10. ↑ a b H. Schmidt-Glintzer also acted as translator.
  11. ↑ With an essay by Arnold Stadler.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hersfeld