List of sinologists

The list of sinologists leads to the biographies of sinologists , i.e. the researchers who deal scientifically with the history, culture, language and politics of China and who have made significant or influential contributions to the field.

The list is very incomplete, for a directory of all sinologists with articles in Wikipedia see category: Sinologist .

Australia

Belgium

Ferdinand Verbiest

Carine Defoort , philosophy
Hilde De Weerdt
Beard Dessein
Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans)
Nicolas Standaert , History of Christianity in China
Roel Sterckx (* 1969) Cambridge
Antoine Thomas astronomer at the imperial court
Ferdinand Verbiest , mathematician at the imperial court

China

Chen Shih-Hsiang
Ch'en Shou-yi
Kwang-chih Chang , China / USA
Kenneth PH Ho (Ho Pei-hsiung 何沛雄), Hong Kong
CT Hsia (夏志清)
Kung-chuan Hsiao , China / USA
Qiu Xigui (裘錫圭), Beijing, Chinese paleography
Rao Zongyi (Jao Tsung-i 饒宗頤), Hong Kong
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (Qian Cunxun 錢存訓), China / USA
Wang Li王力
Gladys Yang
Zhao Yuanren赵元任, founder of modern Chinese linguistics

Denmark

Vibeke Børdahl , oral literature
Søren Egerod (1923–1995)
Donald B. Wagner , metallurgy
Jens Østergård Petersen (* 1954)

Germany

Iwo Amelung ,
Carl Arendt , Handbook on North Chinese Slang
Wolfgang Bauer , Philosophy and Society
Wolfgang Behr , historical linguistics
Ernst Boerschmann , architecture
Franz Xaver Biallas
Lutz Bieg
Aschwin Prince of Lippe Biesterfeld (1914–1988)
Anneliese Bulling , art history
Karl Bünger (1903–1997)
Philip Clart , Chinese Folk Religions
Oliver Corff
Sabine Dabringhaus
Günther Debon , poetry
Wolfram Eberhard , Lexicon of Chinese Symbols , Chinese Folk Tales
Bernd Eberstein , Chinese Theater of the 20th Century, History of Relations between Hamburg and China
Ute Engelhardt , Traditional Chinese Medicine
Werner Eichhorn (1899–1990)
Eduard Erkes , history, ethnology
Frank Fiedeler , private scholar and translator (Yijing 1996)
Mareile Flitsch , ethnology, narrative research, history of technology, food and drink
Alfred Forke , philosophy
Herbert Franke , History of China and its peripheral peoples in Central Asia
Otto Franke , history
Wolfgang Franke , China Handbook
Michael Friedrich , Philosophy, Manuscript Culture
Walter Fuchs
Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz , founder of modern synchronous linguistics, Chinese grammar
(Heinrich Geiger), history of literature and art, aesthetics
Martin Gimm , history, literature, music, theater, Altai studies, Manjuristik, Central Asia
Tilemann Grimm
Wilhelm Grube , Folklore
Andreas Gruschke , Amdo, Kham
Wilhelm Gundert , poetry
Erich Haenisch , course in classical Chinese written language
Christoph Harbsmeier
Thomas Heberer , Politics and Ethnology
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath , Economics
(Fabian Heubel), Philosophy, Literature (Taipei)
Robert Heuser , Legal Culture
Alfred Hoffmann (1911–1997)
Hans Peter Hoffmann , literature
Franz Hübotter , medicine, pharmacology
Fritz Hunter
Michael Kahn-Ackermann
Elisabeth Kaske , History of China in the 19th and early 20th centuries, German-Chinese relations
Beate von Kessel, politics, economy, culture: author and conference interpreter
Volker Klöpsch , literature
Henning Klöter , linguistics
Raimund Th. Kolb
Emil Krebs , first interpreter for the German legation in Beijing
Wolfgang Kubin , poetry, literary history, philosophy
Dieter Kuhn , history of the song, textile history
Franz Kuhn , literary translations
Joachim Kurtz
Michael Lackner , Chinese intellectual history, Chinese history of science since the 19th century, divination and prophecy in traditional China
Ulrich Lau , Legal History of the Qin and Han
Lothar Ledderose , art history
Mechthild Leutner , History of China in the 19th and 20th centuries, German-Chinese relations, history of Sinology
Liang Yong , business communication, Chinese linguistics, language and culture comparison, intercultural communication, specialist language linguistics
Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), Philosophy, Chinese Buddhism
Helmut Martin , literature

Richard Wilhelm

Marc Andre Matten , History of Political Ideas in Modern China, Nationalism and National Identity, Sino-Japanese Relations 1895–1945, Sociology of Knowledge PR China
Carmen Meinert , Buddhism
Erling von Mende , Social and Economic History
Christian Mentzel (1622–1701)
Achim Mittag , self-interpretation and interpretation of the foreign, classical texts
Barbara Mittler , music, media history
Christine Moll-Murata , Economic and Regional History
Ylva Monschein, literature, local history, cultural history, development cooperation (poverty reduction)
Ralf Moritz , philosophy
Klaus Mühlhahn , History and Culture of Late Imperial and Modern China (18th to 20th Century)
Eva Müller , literature
Ingo Nentwig , Ethnology
Max Gerhard Pernitzsch (1882–1945)
Karl-Heinz Pohl , literature, philosophy
Manfred Porkert , traditional Chinese medicine
Roderich Ptak , Macau
Jutta Rall-Niu
Florian C. Reiter , Daoism
Matthias L. Richter , manuscript research
Heiner Roetz , Confucianism, Human Rights
Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer , philosophy, history of religion
Erich Schmitt (1893–1955)
Wilhelm Schott , Language and Philosophy
Gunter Schubert, Contemporary Politics, Society
Hans-Wilm Schütte , social history, history of science
Rainer Schwarz , translator of the Red Chamber's dream
Christian Schwermann , Historical Semantics and Conceptual History
Armin Selbitschka , Chinese Art and Archeology
Rainald Simon, translator of classical literature, Laozi, Yijing, Shijing
(Christian Soffel), (Sinology Trier)
Brunhild Staiger , China Lexicon
Hans Otto Heinrich Stange (1903–1978)
Hans Steininger , philosophy
Hans Stumpfeldt , Han period
Ulrich Theobald , China Knowledge
Thomas Thilo , architecture
Walter Trittel (1880–1948?)
Monika Übelhör , Education and Gender Research of the Late Qing Period
Ulrich Unger , Phonology of Classical Chinese
Paul Ulrich Innocence , Traditional Chinese Medicine
Hans van Ess , Confucianism, Historiography
Kai Vogelsang , History of China
Mayke Wagner
Rudolf G. Wagner
Hartmut Walravens , biographies
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (1955-), history, politics
(Mario Wenning), Philosophy, (Macao)
Jeannette Werning, Archeology of China, (Sinology Heidelberg)
Bodo Wiethoff , History of China
Richard Wilhelm , philosophy, literary translations
Hellmut Wilhelm , Dictionary, Chinese Society
Karl August Wittfogel , philosophy of history
Martin Woesler , literature (Chinese essays, co-translator of the Red Chamber dream )

Estonia

Alexander von Staël-Holstein , Phonetics of Sanskrit and Chinese

France

Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832), Languages and Literature

Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718–1793), Jesuit, astronomer, linguist in Beijing

Jean Denis Attiret (1702–1768), Jesuit and painter in China

Édouard Biot (1803–1850), Chinese astronomy, mathematics, geography, history, society

Édouard Chavannes (1865–1918), Language, Writing and History

Damien Chaussende history and historiography

Karine Chemla , (* 1957) Mathematics, especially the history of mathematics

Anne Cheng (* 1955), Past and Present of Chinese Thought

Henri Cordier (1849–1925), Biblioteca sinica (Chinese bibliography)

Séraphin Couvreur (1835–1919), dictionary and translations

Paul Demiéville (sinologist) (1894–1979), language and literature

Catherine Despeux

Jean-Pierre Drège (* 1946)

René Etiemble (1909-2002)

Jacques Gernet , Standard Work on Chinese History (The Chinese World)

Marcel Granet , Works on Chinese Culture

Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759-1845)

Joseph de Guignes (1721-1800)

Stanislas Julien

François Jullien (* 1951)

Marc Kalinowski

Henri Maspero , standard works on the Chinese language, history and philosophy

Rémi Mathieu (* 1948)

Paul Pelliot (1878–1945), Language and History in Central Asia

Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens (1934–2018), archeology, material culture

Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée (* 1949)

George Soulié de Morant (1878–1955)

Alain Thote

Olivier Venture (* 1971)

Benoît Vermander (* 1960)

Arnold Vissière

Léon Wieger (1856–1933)

Pierre-Étienne Will (* 1944)

Great Britain

James Legge

Stephen Albert (1874-1916)
Frederick W. Baller
John Blofeld , eminent translator
Kerry Brown
WJF Jenner
Herbert Giles , explorer of spoken Chinese dialects, editor of an important dictionary
Henry Yule ("Colonel")
James Legge , important translator of Chinese classics
Michael Loewe
AC Moule
Joseph Needham , biochemist and specialist in Chinese history of science
George Thomas Staunton
Denis Twitchett
Thomas Francis Wade , diplomat and specialist in Chinese language (Cantonese), later professor in Cambridge
Arthur Waley , translator of the Analects of Confucius , Shi Jing (Book of Songs) and Xiyouji

Italy

Matteo Ricci

Japan

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木貞太郎, Suzuki Teitarō; 鈴木大拙, Suzuki Daisetsu; 1870–1966)
Haneda Tōru (1882–1955)
Ikeuchi Hiroshi (1878-1952)
Kanda Kiichirō (1897-1983)
Kōjirō Yoshikawa (1904–1980)
Kuwabara Jitsuzo (1873-1931)
Masaru Aoki (青木正児 Aoki Masaru, Seiji, 1887–1964)
Mikami Tsugio (1907–1987)
Mori Shikazō (1906–1980)
Morohashi Tetsuji (1883–1982)
Naito Konan (1866-1934)
Niida Noboru (1904–1966)
Shinoda Osamu Research on Chinese eating and drinking culture
Nishijima Sadao (1919–1999)
Ōbi Kōichi 小尾郊一
Ono, Genmyō (1883–1939)
Otake Fumio (1900–1962), Shiji translator
Shiratori Kurakichi (1865-1942)
Suzuki Torao 鈴木虎雄
Takakusu, Junjirō (1866–1945)
Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977)
Tsukamoto Zenryū (1898–1980)
Yabuuchi Kiyoshi (1906-2000)
Katō Shigeshi (1880-1989)