Martin Gimm

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Martin Gimm (born May 25, 1930 in Waltershausen ) is a German sinologist .

Life

Before he studied musicology , sinology , Tibetan, Mongolian, Japanese and previously mathematics, philosophy and oriental studies at the universities of Jena and Leipzig and at the Free University of Berlin , and briefly in Stockholm and Tokyo, he was an organist in his hometown from 1943 to 1949 Active pianist. As head of the German Cultural Center, he lectured at Taibei University between 1959 and 1963 and studied Manjurian . He was an associate professor at three Chinese universities and received an honorary certificate from the Chinese Minister of Education. After his habilitation, he worked from 1970 to 1996 as a university professor for sinology along with man law at the University of Cologne and, after his retirement, temporarily as a lecturer for man law at the University of Munich . In 2019 he was awarded the PIAC Prize for Altaic Studies .

Fonts (selection)

As an author

  • The Yüeh-fu tsa-lu of Tuan An-chieh. Studies in the history of music, drama and dance of the T'ang Dynasty. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1966. Asian research 19.
  • The Imperial Ku-wen anthology Ku-wen yüan-chien (Guwen yuanjian). Vol. 1-3, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1969, 1995.
  • The book in China . In: Liber Librorum, 5000 years of book art, Geneva, Weber, 1972, also engl. and french. Output
  • China . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Part 2, pp. 695–755. Bärenreiter-Verlag, (second, revised edition), Kassel, as well as about 90 other articles in the material and personal part (including: bells, notation, pipa, qin, music theater ).
  • The life of the Buddha. A Chinese woodcut fragment. Insel, Leipzig 1967, 5th edition 1995 ( Insel-Bücherei 870), ISBN 3-458-08870-9 .
  • with Hatto Kuhn: Dr. Franz Kuhn (1884–1961), biography and bibliography. (Sinologica Coloniensia 10) Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980
  • Emperor Qianlong (1711–1799) as a poet. (Sinologica Coloniensia 15) Steiner, Stuttgart 1993
  • Cui Qinling and his treatise on the courtly theater and entertainment arts of the 8th century China, Vol. I: The author of Jiaofang ji. (Sinologica Coloniensia 20) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998
  • The beautiful girl Yingying. Erotic novels from China. (Manesse Library of World Literature) Manesse, Zurich 2001
  • Chinese dogs and dog names . In: And now follow what my heart desires. Festschrift for Ulrich Unger on his 70th birthday. (Hamburger Sinologische Schriften 8) Hamburg 2002, p. 93 ff.
  • Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) and the translation of the Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei. (Sinologica Coloniensia 24) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005
  • An episode in the life of Franz Liszt : The Hans Conon von der Gabelentz family in Altenburg. In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 66th year, H. 4, 2009, pp. 321–342
  • In memory of Georg von der Gabelentz : materials for life and work. (Sinologica Coloniensia 32) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013

Gimm also wrote works on Emperor Puyi , Emperor Shunzhi , Kangxi and Qianlong , Goethe and Heinrich Julius Klaproth , shamanism of the Qing period, Chinese short stories and novels, the Jesuit missionary Adam Schall von Bell , folk ballads, Chinese secret files, Walter Fuchs , Athanasius Kircher and Walther Stötzner.

As editor

  • The Chinese anthology Wen-hsüan. (Catalog of oriental manuscripts, Suppl. 11) Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968.
  • Sinologica Coloniensia. Steiner, later Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, since 1972.
  • Aetas Manjurica , co-editor, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz.
  • Chinese Dramas of the Yuan Dynasty. Ten post-edited translations by Alfred Forke. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978. Sinologica Coloniensia 6, 2 further volumes 1993.
  • (With Ilse Reuter): The history of Chinese music. Schott, Mainz 2009.
  • Jin Ping Mei金瓶梅, Chinese novel. Trans. V. Hans Conon vd Gabelentz, edited and edited, Berlin, State Library, Part IX, 2005–2013.
  • With Lutz Bieg, Hartmut Walravens: The Chinese novel Rou pu tuan肉 蒲團in a Manjuric translation of the Berlin manuscript from the time before 1700. Berlin State Library, New Acquisitions of the East Asia Department , Special Issue 27, Berlin, 2011.

literature

  • Lutz Bieg et al. (Ed.): Ad Seres et Tungusos. Festschrift for Martin Gimm on his 65th birthday on May 25, 1995 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2000 (Opera sinologica 11), ISBN 3-447-04291-5 (Martin Gimm's list of publications: pp. XXIII - XLI).
  • Erling von Mende: Martin Gimm. In: Deutsche China-Gesellschaft Mitteilungsblatt, 2, 1995, pp. 10-12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 62nd Annual Meeting Friedensau, 2019: Report. Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)
personal data
SURNAME Gimm, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltershausen