Klaus Kracht

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Klaus Kracht (born August 17, 1948 in Dinslaken ) is a German Japanologist .

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From 1967 to 1973 , Klaus Kracht studied Japanese Studies , Sinology , Political Science , Philosophy and History at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He was at the Department of East Asian Studies in Bochum in 1973. Doctor of Philosophy PhD and habilitation 1,982th There he taught at the Section for History and Intellectual History of Japan as a research assistant from 1973 to 1983 and was responsible for the series of publications by the East Asia Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum and the Bochum Yearbook on East Asian Studies. In 1984 he was appointed to the newly established chair for Japanese philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , in 1994 to the chair for Japanese language and culture at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and head of its Mori-Ōgai -Memorial . He took on visiting professorships and fellowships at the University of Tokyo , Institute for Social Research, the University of Kyoto , Institute for Human Sciences, at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto a . a. true.

The focus of his work is the Japanese cultural and intellectual history of the 17th to the 21st century in its relationship to the spiritual traditions of China, Europe and America. The focus is on political thinking, festival culture ( Nenchū gyōji ) and cultural traditions of decency ( Reigi sahō, manā, echiketto, kan kon sō sai ). He publishes the series “Izumi. Sources, studies and materials on the culture of Japan ” (since 1989), in the same publishing house the journal Japonica Humboldtiana (since 1997, today together with Michael Kinski and Markus Rüttermann) with scientific articles on Japanology. Self-published by the memorial site, he has published the small series (since 1997) with translations of texts by Japanese authors.

From 1985 to 1995 Kracht was director of the seminar for Japanese studies he founded at the University of Tübingen; In 1989 he founded the Tübingen Japankolleg, in 1993 the Center for Japanese Language at the University of Tübingen at the Dōshisha University in Kyoto, in 1995 the Center for Language and Culture of Japan at the Humboldt University in Berlin, of which he was director until his retirement in 2013 .

Publications (selection)

  • The Kōdōkanki-jutsugi of Fujita Tōko (1806–1855). A contribution to the political thinking of the late Mito school, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 1975. x, 223 p. (Studies on Japanology. Monographs on the history, culture and language of Japan. Edited by Horst Hammitzsch , vol. 12). ISBN 3-44701-731-7 .
  • Transl. Kajima Morinosuke: History of Japanese Foreign Relations, Vol. I: From the opening of the country to the Meiji restoration. Published by Horst Hammitzsch , Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag 1976. 236 p. 28 Fig. ISBN 3-51502-554-5 .
  • Published by Japan after 1945. Contributions to culture and society, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1979. 166 pp. ISBN 3-44702-059-8 .
  • Transcultural Understanding and Modern Japan. Fourth Symposium Sponsored by Tokai University, held at the Ruhr-University Bochum, West Germany. Edited by Klaus Kracht and Helmut Morsbach, October 1981, Bochum: Studienverlag Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer 1983. vii, 133 pp. ISBN 3883393339 .
  • Japan and Germany in the 20th century. Published by Klaus Kracht, Bruno Lewin and Klaus Müller, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1984. 208 p. (Publications of the East Asia Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Vol. 32). ISBN 3-44702-457-7 .
  • Studies on the history of thought in Japan from the 17th to 19th centuries. Chu-Hsi-Konfuzianische Geist-Diskurse , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1985. xiv, 448 p. (Publications of the East Asia Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Vol. 31). ISBN 3-44702-429-1 .
  • Japanische Geistesgeschichte , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1988. x, 504 p. (Together with Gerhard Leinss and Olof Lidin ) (Japanese specialist texts. Edited by Bruno Lewin , Vol. 3). ISBN 3-44702-802-5 .
  • Japanese studies at German-speaking universities, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1990. iv, 256 pp. ISBN 3-44703-064-X .
  • Nihon no shisô to Doitsu gaku juyô no kenkyû. Kindai Nihon no keisei to Doitsu 日本 の 思想 と ド イ ツ 学 受 容 の 研究 近代 日本 の 形成 と ド イ ツ ("Japanese thinking and reception of German science. Germany and the emergence of modern Japan"). Published together with Kinugasa Yasuki 衣 笠 安 喜, Nishikawa Tomio 西川 富雄 and Suekawa Kiyoshi 末 川 清, Kyôto: Ritsumeikan Daigaku Jinbun Gakka Kenkyû Jo 立命 館 大学 人文 学科 研究所 1993. 450 p. (Ritsumei Kan û学科 研究所 紀要, 52).
  • “Decency and Etiquette in Japan. A research area ”, Japonica Humboldtiana 2 (1998), 6-58 ; 3: 6-48 (1999) .
  • Together with Katsumi Tateno-Kracht: Kurisumasu. Dō yatte Nihon ni teichaku shita ka ク リ ス マ ス ど う や っ て 日本 に 定 着 し た か ("Christmas - as it became native to Japan"), Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten 1999. x, 231 pp. ISBN 4-0488-3598-X . Also available in Braille, as audio cassettes and CD from the National Parliamentary Library in Tokyo.
  • Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Era. A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials . Compiled and edited by Klaus Kracht, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2000. 426 p. (Izumi. Sources, studies and materials on the culture of Japan. Edited by Klaus Kracht, vol. 6). ISBN 3-44704-307-5 .
  • Edited together with Markus Rüttermann : Grundriss der Japanologie , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2001. 650 S. (Izumi. Sources, studies and materials on the culture of Japan. Edited by Klaus Kracht, Vol. 7) ISBN 3-44704-371-7 .
  • “Nishida and Politics”, Japonica Humboldtiana 5 (2001), 205-250 ; 6: 183-249 (2002) .
  • Together with Katsumi Tateno-Kracht: Ōgais "Noël". Midwinter from the life of the Mori house and the castle town of Tsuwano - beyond the idyllic silence, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2011. 885 p. (Izumi. Sources, studies and materials on the culture of Japan. Edited by Klaus Kracht, vol. 11). ISBN 978-3-447-05843-8 .
  • Together with Katsumi Tateno-Kracht: Ôgai no Kurisumasu. Mori Ke wo meguru nendai ki 鷗 外 の 降 誕 祭 （ク リ ス マ ス） 森 家 を め ぐ る 年代 記 (“Christmas at Ôgai. Chronological information about the Mori family”), Tōkyō: NTT Shuppan 2012. xii, 458 pp. 978-4-7571 5085-0 .
  • “Ogai” - Mori Rintarô. Encounters with the Japanese homme de lettres . Published by Klaus Kracht, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2014. 348 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-10197-4 .

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SURNAME Crazy, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinslaken