Michael Lackner

Michael Lackner (born May 19, 1953 in Bamberg ) is a German sinologist .

academic career

Michael Lackner studied Sinology, Ethnology and Political Science at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich from 1972 to 1979 . In 1983 he was at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis Menglin xuan jie and traditional Chinese theories of dream interpretation under Wolfgang Bauer Dr. phil. PhD. During this time he worked on the completion of the East Asia catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek . In 1990 he obtained his habilitation in Sinology on the subject of “Western humanism in Jesuit teachings in China” , also at Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1992 he took up a visiting professorship at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris , and in the same year he held a visiting professorship at the University of Geneva , which he held until 1994. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Sinology at the University of Göttingen and at the same time visiting professor at the TU Berlin . From 1999 to 2000 he returned to the University of Geneva as Professor of Sinology. Since 2000 he has been professor of Sinology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

Lackner was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study Uppsala , the Institute for Advanced Studies at the National Taiwan University and u. a. Visiting professor at Kansai University in Osaka , Fudan University Shanghai and the University of Sydney .

Michael Lackner's writings have appeared in German, French, English and Chinese. His main research interests are the intellectual history of China, Confucianism , the history of science in China, discourse on identity, as well as divination and prophecy in traditional China.

research

Since 2009, Lackner has been the director of a Käte Hamburger Center he initiated on “Fate, Freedom and Prediction. Coping Strategies in East Asia and Europe ”. The college is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and was initially designed for a period of six years; In 2015 it was extended for a further six years. For the sinology of the present are u. a. to name his contributions to diagrams as the visualization of syntactic and semantic structures of traditional Chinese texts, furthermore the recording of the lexicon of the modern Chinese scientific language as well as work on the role of prophecy and prophecy in the world and worldview of traditional and modern China. Lackner has also made several comments on the ideological location of Confucianism in modern and contemporary China.

Act

Lackner is a recognized China expert. Since 2013 he has been a member of the advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research "The International Position of German Humanities". At times he not only writes for a specialist audience, but also made several statements in the Frankfurter Allgemeine on China issues and acted as co-editor for the 1998 and 2007 editions of the China Country Report of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . In connection with the imprisonment of the Chinese artist and regime critic Ai Weiwei , Lackner, the Berlin and Beijing gallery owner Alexander Ochs , the China management consultant Jochen Noth and the former manager and ex-head of the Federal Association of German Industry Hans-Olaf Henkel initiated a call for release Ais. More than one hundred first signatories from science, business and the media joined the initiative. It is thanks, among other things, to Lackner's network and contacts to Chinese scientists that FAU received a comprehensive donation of more than 100,000 volumes from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in 2006 . The donation covers the period of the Chinese upheavals of the post-war period, including the Cultural Revolution and its successor until the mid-1990s. The University of Erlangen now has a library on the People's Republic of China and its recent human, social and technological history that is unique in Europe. Michael Lackner is also a member of the board of directors of the Confucius Institute, which opened in Erlangen in 2006, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2013 .

Active memberships, functions and awards (selection)

• Vice Dean for Internationalization, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)
• Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board "Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies (IZO)", Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• Member of the External Review Panel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), "The International Position of German Humanities"
• Member of the Senate of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)
• Board member of the Confucius Institute in Nuremberg-Erlangen
• Fudan University Guanghua Eminent Scholars Award
• Tsungming Tu Prize 2017 as the first humanities researcher

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• Lackner, Michael: The forgotten memory . The Jesuit mnemonic treatise Xiguo jifa. Translation and commentary. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1986, ISBN 978-3-515-04564-3
• Lackner, Michael: The Chinese dream forest . Traditional theories of the dream and its interpretation in the mirror of the ming-temporal anthology Meng-lin hsüan-chieh (= European university publications , 11). Frankfurt / Bern / New York: Peter Lang 1985, ISBN 978-3-8204-8173-0 (= dissertation)

As editor:

• Lackner, Michael; Fischer, Doris (Ed.): Country Report China. Bonn: Federal Agency for Political Education: 2007, ISBN 978-3-89331-785-1
• Lackner, Michael; Amelung, Iwo; Kurtz, Joachim (Ed.): New Terms for New Ideas. Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China. Leiden: Brill 2001, ISBN 978-90-04-12046-4
• Lackner, Michael; Vittinghoff, Natascha (Ed.): Mapping meanings. The field of new learning in late Qing China. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2004 (= Sinica Leidensia, 64), ISBN 978-90-04-13919-0
• Lackner, Michael; Werner, Michael (ed.): The cultural turn in the human sciences. Area Studies in the ascendant or downturn in culturalism? Bad Homburg: Werner Reimers Foundation 1999 (series of publications Search Processes for Innovative Questions in Science, Vol. 2).
• Lackner, Michael; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten (Ed.): Country Report China. Bonn: Federal Agency for Political Education 1998, ISBN 978-3-89331-308-2
• Friedrich, Michael; Lackner, Michael; Reimann, Friedrich (ed.): Chang Tsai: Right Auflichten. Correction of wrong ideas of the youth or correct understanding of unclear passages in the classics. Translated from Chinese and published with introduction, analytical commentary, references, bibliographical references and indices. Hamburg: Felix Meiner 1996, ISBN 978-3-7873-0935-1

literature

• Guggenmos, Esther-Maria: The upheaval towards “modernity” in China, lines of conceptual history and the rehabilitation of divination and mantic in the Chinese canon of knowledge. Historical research focus in Sinology and East Asian Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. (in: Yearbook of Historical Research in the Federal Republic of Germany, 2011, pp. 53–60, ISSN  0341-9177 , ISBN 978-3-486-70942-1 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Lackner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Lackner on the Sinology pages of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• International College for Research in the Humanities
• Interview "Three questions for ... Michael Lackner" from Stiftung Mercator
• Presentation of the book donation from Shanghai in Erlangen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report on the extension of the IKGF on the FAU website.
2. ^ Article on Ai Weiwei's arrest for a while online.
3. ↑ Article on the “Berlin Appeal” for the release of Ai Weiwei in the taz.
4. ↑ FAU press release on the gift of books from Shanghai and the founding of the Confucius Institute.
5. ^ List of the board of directors of the Confucius Institute in Nuremberg-Erlangen. ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
7. ↑ "Tsungming Tu" Prize for Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner. Retrieved May 7, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Area Studies in the Ups and Downs of Culturalism .