Michael Weiers

Michael Weiers (born December 26, 1937 in Bernried am Starnberger See ) is a German orientalist , philologist and historian . Weiers taught from 1972 until his retirement in 2003 as a professor at the University of Bonn Linguistics and Cultural Studies of Central Asia and is honorary professor at the University of Inner Mongolia in Hohhot . Weiers published numerous essays and books on the history of the Mongols and Manchurians, and here especially on source philology.

Publications (selection)

• History of china. Basics of a political history of the country. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-018872-3 .
• History of the Mongols (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books 603). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-017206-9 .
• The Moghol language of the Herat province in Afghanistan. (Language material, grammar, word list) (= treatises of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vol. 49 = materials on the language and literature of the Mongols of Afghanistan. Vol. 1). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1972, ISBN 3-531-09049-6 .
• Investigations into a historical grammar of pre-classical Mongolian. Bonn 1965 (Bonn, University, dissertation of December 22, 1965).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Weiers in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications by Michael Weiers. Zentralasienforschung.de
• Prof. emeritus Dr. Michael Weiers. University of Bonn