Maik Hendrik Sprat
Maik Hendrik Sprotte (* 1964 ) is a German Japanologist .
Life
Sprotte studied Japanese Studies, Political Science and Comparative Religious Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2001 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on “Conflicts in Authoritarian Systems - A Historical Case Study on the Early Socialist Movement in Japan during the Meiji Period ”.
From 1990 to 1999 Sprotte worked as an editor, translator and interpreter in the German diplomatic mission of the Japanese daily newspapers Tōkyō Shimbun and Chūnichi Shimbun in Bonn. From 2001 to 2003 he was a research assistant at the Japanological Seminar at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University for five years.
Together with other interested parties, he founded the initiative for historical research on Japan in 2003 and designed the bibliography on historical research on Japan.
From 2008 to 2010, Sprotte was a research associate (postdoc) in the international graduate school “Transformation of Civil Society. Japan and Germany in Comparison ”, a joint project of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Tokyo . Sprotte worked from 2014 to 2016 as a research assistant with Manfred Hettling at the Institute for History at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and at the International Graduate College Halle-Tōkyō. After working from 2016 to 2017 at the University of Duisburg-Essen at the chair of "Politics in Japan / Social Science East Asian Studies" at Axel Klein , Sprotte had been a visiting lecturer since April 2017 and has been a visiting professor since April 2018 to represent the Chair of Social and Cultural History of Japan at the East Asian Seminar - Japanese Studies at the Free University of Berlin .
Sprotte's research interests are in the field of modern history of Japan . Sprotte researches Japanese civil society, forms of protest, the mobilization of Japanese society in the Asia-Pacific War ( Japanese ア ジ ア ・ 太平洋 戦 争 , Ajia Taiheiyō sensō , 1931-45), the Tennō system and the future of the Japanese monarchy, aspects of the Shinto nationalism and the effect of rumors and fake news in Japanese history.
Works (selection)
- Conflict Resolution in Authoritarian Systems of Rule - A Historical Case Study of the Early Socialist Movement in Japan during the Meiji Period. Tectum, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-8288-8323-0 .
- with Wolfgang Seifert and Heinz-Dietrich Löwe (eds.): The Russo-Japanese War 1904/05 - Dawn of a New Era? Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05707-3 .
- with Tino Schölz (Ed.): The mobilized citizen ?: Aspects of civil society participation in Japan during the war (1931–1945) . Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2010, ISBN 978-3-86829-243-5 .
- Civil Society as a State Event? A search for clues in Japan before 1945 . Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-86829-526-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Maik Hendrik Sprotte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Maik Hendrik Sprotte
- Initiative for historical research on Japan
- Bibliography on historical research on Japan
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Maik Hendrik Sprotte continues to represent the professorship for social and cultural history of Japan . In: fu-berlin.de, accessed on March 31, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprat, Maik Hendrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Japanologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |