Herbert Zachert

Herbert Zachert (born April 28, 1908 in Berlin ; †  November 11, 1979 in Bonn ) was German lecturer at the Matsumoto secondary school in Nagano Prefecture from 1933 and later head of the Japanese-German Cultural Institute in Tokyo .

His son Hans-Ludwig was born in Japan in 1937 and became President of the Federal Criminal Police Office in 1990 .

In 1947 Herbert Zachert and his family were forcibly repatriated to Germany. In his hometown of Berlin he received a research assignment from the Academy of Sciences in 1948, in 1949 he became a professor with a teaching assignment at the Humboldt University in Berlin , and in 1959 professor with a chair in Japanese studies at the same university. In 1960 he was called to the Department of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Bonn . Later he was also director here.

In 1976 he received the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure , 3rd grade.

Works

• The imperial decrees of Shoku-Nihongi in text and translation with explanations I. Introduction and Semmyô 1-29 . Asia Major , Volume 8, 1932, pp. 105-232, PDF
• Font reform in Japan . News from the Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia EV at the University of Hamburg, NOAG 74.1953, 9-16, 51, ISSN  0016-9080 .
• Look to Japan. Sumpu Congress Hall in Shizuoka (Kenzo Tange and Y. Tsuboi) . Bauwelt 23/1958
• Japanese textbook. Colloquial Language - PhraseBook . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964, OCLC 24798521 .

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1. ^ Obituary by Josef Kreiner - Institute for Japanese Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Jean-Marie Thiébaud: L'Ordre du Trésor sacré (Japon). In: Editions L'Harmattan. L'Harmattan, December 2007, accessed July 27, 2009 (French). 
3. ↑ AntiqBook

Web links

• Obituary by Josef Kreiner - Institute for Japanese Studies at Humboldt University Berlin ( Memento from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Herbert Zachert in the catalog of the German National Library