Otto Franke (Sinologist)

Otto Franke (奥托 · 福兰阁; born September 27, 1863 in Gernrode ; † August 5, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German sinologist .

Life

Franke was in the service of the German Kaiser worked 1888-1901 as an interpreter in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Amoy, before returning to Germany. Since January 1, 1910, he held the first German chair for "Languages and History of East Asia" at the Colonial Institute of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . From 1923 to 1931 he taught as a professor of Sinology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. He made a name for himself primarily with his five-volume work on Chinese history . This was the first large-scale attempt at a German-speaking history of China . In 1923 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1935 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

His son was the sinologist Wolfgang Franke . Another son, Ernst Otto (* 1899), died on August 2, 1916 near Martinpuich (Northern France).

Both in Berlin- Adlershof and in the Quedlinburg district of Gernrode there is a street named after Otto Franke.

Works (selection)

Studies on the history of Confucian dogma and the Chinese state religion . Friedrichsen publishing house, Hamburg 1920.
History of the Chinese Empire . 5 vols. Berlin 1932–1952 (reprint: ISBN 3-11-017034-5 )
Memories from two worlds: marginal glosses on your own life story . De Gruyter, Berlin 1954.
"Say you foreign lands ..." Travel to East Asia. Diaries and photographs (1888-1901) . Edited by Renata Fu-Sheng Franke and Wolfgang Franke. Institut Monumenta Serica, Sankt Augustin 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-8050-0562-3 )

literature

Bruno Schindler : Volume IX of this magazine should be dedicated to Otto Franke on his 70th birthday on September 27, 1933 . Asia Major 9, 1933, pp. 1-2, PDF
Fritz Jäger: Bibliography of the writings of Professor Dr. O. Franke . Asia Major 9, 1933, pp. 3-20 PDF
Herbert Franke: Franke, Alwin Wilhelm Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ).
The Franke Collection in the Prussian State Library. Modifications made by Helga Keller. Edited and indexed by Hartmut Walravens. 2001 ( partial online view )

Web links

Notes and individual references

↑ 1. Renata Fu-Sheng Franke, Wolfgang Franke (ed.): Say, you foreign lands - East Asia trips. Diaries and photographs (1888-1901) . Page 12 ff.
^ Members of the previous academies. Otto Franke. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 24, 2015 .

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 84.

personal data
SURNAME	Franke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gernrode
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1946
Place of death	Berlin

[1] 1. Renata Fu-Sheng Franke, Wolfgang Franke (ed.): Say, you foreign lands - East Asia trips. Diaries and photographs (1888-1901) . Page 12 ff.

[2] Members of the previous academies. Otto Franke. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 24, 2015 .

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 84.