Jacques Gernet

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Jacques Gernet ( Chinese  谢 和 耐 , Pinyin Xiè Hénài , born December 22, 1921 in Algiers ; † March 3, 2018 in Vannes ) was a French sinologist .

Life

In 1942 Gernet acquired a license de lettres classiques ( classical philology ) in Algiers. His studies were interrupted by the war, and he was a soldier from 1942 to 1945. In 1947 he obtained a diploma in Chinese from the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and in 1948 from the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). He became a member of the École française d'Extrême-Orient before becoming a researcher at the CNRS and a fellow of the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun .

From 1955 to 1976 he worked as a researcher (directeur d'études) at EPHE, VI. Section from which the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales emerged . In 1956 he received his doctorate. Since 1957 he has been teaching at the Faculté des lettres of the Sorbonne , initially as maître de conférences (lecturer) and since 1959 as professor. In 1968 he founded the Unité d'enseignement et de recherche des Langues et civilizations de l'Asie orientale ( University of Paris VII ), which he headed until 1973.

Eventually he was elected to the Collège de France . From 1975 to 1992 he held the chair for the social and intellectual history of China.

On June 8, 1979 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . In the same year, his great story of China, The Chinese World, appeared in German for the first time. Gernets writings have been translated into numerous languages.

Gernet was a member of the Legion of Honor and commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . In 1989 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea , in 1996 as a corresponding member of the British Academy and in 1998 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

During the Algerian War in 1960, Gernet was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of 121 , which called on French soldiers to refuse to serve.

Fonts

  • 1949: Entretiens du maître de dhyâna Chen-houei du Ho-tsö (668-760) , Hanoi, EFEO (PEFEO, 31), [new edition 1974].
  • 1956: Les Aspects économiques du bouddhisme dans la société chinoise du Ve au Xe siècle , Saigon, EFEO (PEFEO, 39), engl. : Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries , Reprint: Columbia University Press, 1995, ISBN 0231114117
  • 1959: La Vie quotidienne en Chine à la veille de l'invasion mongole , Paris, Hachette ( La vie quotidienne ), fr. Paperback edition: Picquier Philippe, 2008, ISBN 9782877309561 , English: Daily Life in China, on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 , Stanford University Press, 1962, ISBN 0804707200
  • 1970: Catalog des manuscrits chinois de la Bibliothèque nationale, fonds Pelliot de Touen-houang, vol. 1 , Paris, Bibliothèque nationale. (with Wu Chi-yü)
  • 1972: Le Monde chinois , Paris, A. Colin, German The Chinese World. The history of China from its beginnings to the present , first Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1979, last paperback edition: Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2008, ISBN 3518380052 , updated English edition: A History of Chinese Civilization , Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521497817
  • 1982: Chine et christianisme, action et réaction , Paris, Gallimard, German Christ came to China. A first encounter and its failure ; trans. Christine Mäder-Virágh, Zurich and Munich: Artemis & Winkler Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-7608-0626-0
  • 1994: L'Intelligence de la Chine: le social et le mental , Paris, Gallimard.
  • 2005: La Raison des choses: Essai sur la philosophie de Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692) , Paris, Gallimard.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, accessed on March 6, 2018
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Jacques Gernet. Academia Europaea, accessed September 3, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gernet, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2018
Place of death Vannes