Martin Ramming

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Martin Ramming (born November 21, 1889 in St. Petersburg , † March 29, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German Japanologist .

origin

Martin Gotthard Theodor Ramming was born as a Baltic German in St. Petersburg. His parents were the privateer Nikolaus Ramming († 1919) from Livonia and his wife, Olga Vogel († 1925) from Petersburg .

Life

He passed his Abitur at the local St. Annenschule . From 1908 to 1912 he studied at the Imperial University in the Sino-Japanese Department of the Oriental Faculty. Among his academic teachers were the sinologists PS Popow , AI Ivanov and VM Aleksejew , the orientalist Wilhelm Barthold and the historian NI Veselovskij . At the same time, he completed the three-year course at the Practical Oriental Academy. In 1911 he undertook his first study trip to Japan with the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok and from there with a steamer of the Russian Volunteer Fleet to Tsuruga. Another trip to Japan followed in 1912.

From 1914 to 1918 he worked as an attaché at the Russian Foreign Ministry. From 1916 to 1925 he was "Elder Dragoman" at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo . After Japan officially recognized the Soviet Union in 1925, he remained in Tokyo as a private scholar until 1927. During these years he gave Russian lessons at the foreign language college (Tōkyō gaikokugo gakkō). In 1928 he was employed in the library of the Japan Institute in Berlin . A year later he received German citizenship and became a Japanese lecturer at the Seminar for Oriental Languages. In 1930 he received his doctorate under Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Müller (1863-1930) and Clemens Scharschmidt (1880-1945) with a dissertation on "Russia reports by shipwrecked Japanese from the years 1793-1805". In 1935, Ramming organized the first German Japanologist Day. The following year he became an honorary professor at the Department of Oriental Languages. From 1934 until the end of the war he headed the Japan Institute. In 1944 he was appointed full professor. This was the first full professorship for Japanese Studies in Berlin. From 1947 to 1961 he headed the department for East Asian research at the Institute for Orient Research at the Academy of Sciences . In 1953 he was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

From 1930 to 1932, Ramming was responsible for the publication of the “Yamato” magazine, founded in 1928 by the German-Japanese working group , which was revived as “Nippon” from 1935 until it was discontinued in 1944.

Martin Ramming died in Berlin in 1988 at the age of 98. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

family

In 1916 he married Vera Catharina von Küster (* 1892). The couple had a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • About the Russians' share in opening up Japan to trade with the Western powers . In: "Messages of the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic East Asia", Vol. 21, Tokyo, 1926.
  • The economic situation of the samurai at the end of the Tokugawa period . In: Communications of the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic East Asia , Vol. 22, Part A, Tokyo, 1928.
  • Voyages of shipwrecked Japanese in the 18th century Century . Berlin: Würfel Verlag, 1931.
  • Japan Manual; Reference book for Japanese customers, on behalf of the Japan Institute Berlin . Berlin: Steiniger, 1941.
  • On the Ronin Problem in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 . Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The full name of the institute founded on December 4, 1926 was "Institute for mutual knowledge of intellectual life and public institutions in Germany and Japan".
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 580.
personal data
SURNAME Ramming, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramming, Martin Gotthard Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1988
Place of death Berlin