Michael Friedrich (Sinologist)

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Michael Friedrich (* 1955 in Oldenburg ) is a German sinologist .

Life

From 1976 to 1981 Michael Friedrich studied Sinology, Philosophy and Japanese Studies in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Taipei . In 1984 he received his doctorate from his teacher Wolfgang Bauer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on Xuanxue . From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sinology in Munich. In 1990 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on language and thinking in neo-Confucian philosophy . In the following years he worked as a private lecturer and Heisenberg scholar in Munich. After a visiting professorship in Zurich (1992–93), he was appointed professor of Sinology at the University of Hamburg in 1994 , where he succeeded Friedrich Alexander Bischoff as the chair of Chinese language and literature. Michael Friedrich is co-founder of the "European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts" (EASCM), of which he was chairman from 2004 to 2008. From 2008 to 2011 he was the spokesman for the research group “Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa”, from 2011 to 2019 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 950 “Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe” and since 2019 he has been the spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”, which emerged from the SFB ".

Fonts (selection)

as co-editor

as editor

  • Zhang Zai : Right thinning = Cheng-meng . Translated from the Chinese, with introduction and comm. Vers. and ed. by Michael Friedrich, Michael Lackner and Friedrich Reimann (=  Philosophical Library . Volume 419 ). Meiner, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-7873-0935-7 .
  • together with Thomas O. Höllmann; Lucia Obi; Shing Müller and Xaver Götzfried: Manuscripts of the Yao (=  directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany . Volume 44 ). F. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08403-7 .
  • Han period: Festschrift for Hans Stumpfeldt on the occasion of his 65th birthday (=  Lun-wen: Studies on intellectual history and literature in China . Volume 8 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05445-4 .

Works

  • Hsüan-hsüeh: Studies on the speculative direction in the intellectual history of the Wei Chin period (3rd – 4th centuries) . Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich 1984 (dissertation).
  • Language and Thought: To an unexplained relationship in Chinese intellectual history, especially in Chu Hsi's neoconfucianism . Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich 1989 (habilitation thesis).
  • "The ancestors and the self. An archaism in Han-era poetry and its function." In: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (ed.): The other China. Festschrift for Wolfgang Bauer on his 65th birthday . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, pp. 405-434.
  • "On the dating of two manuscripts from Daode jing ." In: TEXTcritical Contributions (2) 1996, pp. 205–217.
  • "Ciphers or hieroglyphs? The Chinese writing in the West." In: Aleida Assmann and Jan Assmann (eds.): Hieroglyphs. Stations in a different occidental grammatology . W. Fink, Munich 2003, pp. 89-116.
  • "Chinese Myths and Chinese Mythology." In: Reinhard Brandt and Steffen Schmidt (eds.): Myth and Mythology. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 237-254.
  • "Who was the father? - For the interpretation of some verses from the canonical book of songs ." In: Michael Quisinsky and Peter Walter (eds.): Comment cultures . The interpretation of central texts of the world religions: a comparative overview. Böhlau, Cologne 2007, pp. 133–201.
  • "Friedrich, Michael:" The 'Announcement to the World Below' of Ma-wang-tui馬王堆 3. "In: Manuscript Cultures (1) 2008, pp. 7-15.
  • "The editorial report of Liu Hsiang劉向 on the Chan-kuo ts'e戰 國策." In: Monika Gänssbauer and Harro von Senger (eds.): Gaining the Jadestein. Festschrift for Harro von Senger. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 239-257.
  • "Who was the grave lord of Ma-wang-tui ?" In: Roland Altenburger, Martin Lehnert and Andrea Riemenschnitter (eds.): A friend to the text. Explorations of ancient Chinese; Dedicated to Robert H. Gassmann . Peter Lang, Bern, New York 2009, pp. 125–143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts
  2. ↑ Manuscript cultures in Asia and Africa
  3. ↑ Manuscript cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe.
  4. ↑ Understanding Written Artefacts
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg