Michael Höckelmann

Michael Höckelmann (* 1981 in Warendorf ) is a German sinologist .

Life

From 2005 to 2007 he studied Chinese (Mandarin) as well as Chinese philosophy and religion at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangdong) . In 2009 he obtained the Magister Artium in Sinology (grade 1.30), Political Science and General Linguistics, title of the thesis: Just War and Punishments in Lüshi Chunqiu and in 2013 the doctorate (summa cum laude) for Dr. phil. in Sinology, title of the thesis: Li Deyu (787–850). (Civil) religion, politics and biography , University of Münster . From 2008 to 2013 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Sinology and East Asian Studies in Münster . From 2009 to 2013 he was a research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in the Cultures of the Pre-Modern and Modern Age”, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Schneider-Sasakawa Fund of the University of Münster for research at Seikado Bunko 静 嘉 堂 文庫 (Tokyo), Institute for Research in Humanities ( University of Kyoto ) and in Taiwan. From 2013 to 2015 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge and King's College London. From 2014 to 2015 he was Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge . From 2015 to 2017 he was Visiting Research Fellow, History, King's College London . From 2015 to 2017 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University . From 2017 to 2018 he was a lecturer in East Asian History, History, University of Manchester . From 2018 to 2019 he was Research Fellow in Chinese Intellectual and Cultural History, ERC project “PAIXUE: Classicizing Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang / Song Xue”, University of Edinburgh . Since 2019 he has been teaching as Professor for State and Society of China at the University of Erlangen .

His main research interests are pre-modern Chinese philology, intellectual and institutional history, medieval history and gender history (eunuchs).

Fonts (selection)

• Li Deyu (787-850). Religion and Politics in the Tang Period . Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-447-10503-8 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Michael Höckelmann