Lothar von Falkenhausen

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Lothar Alexander von Falkenhausen (* 1959 in Essen ) is a German - American archaeologist and sinologist . He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1993 and is currently Professor of Chinese Archeology and Art History and Associate Director of the university's Cotsen Institute of Archeology . His research focus is Bronze Age China.

Life

Lothar von Falkenhausen grew up in Essen and attended schools there. He then studied Sinology and Art History at the University of Bonn from 1977 to 1979 and archeology at the University of Beijing . He then continued his studies as a graduate student at Harvard University , where he received a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies in 1982 and a Ph. D. From 1988 to 1990, he taught as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University . From 1990 to 1991 he was a Getty Fellow at the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing for one academic year . This was followed by a two-year teaching position at the University of California, Riverside . After that, von Falkenhausen moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993. In 1996 he was appointed full professor there . Since 2004 he has been Associate Director of the university's Cotsen Institute of Archeology .

Falkenhausen was repeatedly visiting professor ( visiting professor ), about 1997 at the University of Heidelberg , 1998 at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris from 2002 to 2003 from the University of Kyoto , in 2007 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong , in 2008 at the University of Muenster and 2014 as part of the third Dagmar Westberg endowed professorship at the University of Frankfurt . He was also a visiting researcher at the Taiwanese Academia Sinica from 1994 to 1995 , at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in 2000 and at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto in 2003 . In 2011 he was a visiting fellow at the International College for Humanities Research at the University of Erlangen .

Von Falkenhausen published several books and over 100 journal articles on his research focus. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of East Asian Archeology for several years . From 1999 to 2004 he was co- principal investigator of the international archaeological field project in the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River , which investigated ancient salt production there. His book Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC). The Archaeological Evidence received the 2009 Book Award from the Society for American Archeology .

Von Falkenhausen has been a US citizen since 2004 . He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute , Honorary Research Fellow of the Shaanxi Archaeological Academy and since 2014 honorary professor at Zhejiang University . In 2011 he was accepted as a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2016 .

Publications (selection)

  • Suspended Music. Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. (1993, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press).
  • Sound reserve for posterity . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 978-3-933257-48-2 .
  • Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC). The Archaeological Evidence. (2006, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archeology, UCLA).
  • with Li Shuicheng (Ed.): Salt Archeology in China / Zhongguo yanye kaogu 中國 鹽業 考古. (20006/2010, 2 volumes, Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe).
  • (Ed.): Studies of Chinese Art History in Honor of Professor Lothar Ledderose (= Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 17). Paris 2010.
  • (Ed.): The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. (2009/2011, 2 volumes. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archeology).
  • with Alain Schnapp , Peter Miller, Tim Murray (Eds.): World Antiquarianism (2013, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute Press).
  • with Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach, Robin DS Yates (eds.): Birth of an Empire. The State of Qin Revisited (2013, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press).

Web links

  • Entry on the website of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (English)
  • Entry on the website of the International College for Research in the Humanities (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ China's economic boom in the first millennium BC ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 5, 2014, www.archaeologie-online.de ; Dagmar Westberg Endowed Professorship , website of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archaeologie-online.de
  2. ^ Book Award , website of the Society for American Archeology.
  3. ^ Lothar von Falkenhausen named honorary professor, Zhejiang University , July 23, 2014, UCLA Newsroom
  4. ^ Member History: Lothar von Falkenhausen. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Entry on sound stock for posterity on the Kehrer Verlag website
personal data
SURNAME Falkenhausen, Lothar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkenhausen, Lothar Alexander von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American archaeologist and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH eat