Otto Karow

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Otto Karow (born September 29, 1913 in Magdeburg ; † August 6, 1992 in Bad Homburg vd Höhe ) was a German Japanologist and sinologist.

Life

Karow grew up in Magdeburg , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1932. In the same year he began studying Protestant theology and oriental studies. He then moved to the University of Leipzig, where he devoted himself to Sinology and Japanese Studies. In 1935 he obtained the diplomas for Japanese and Chinese at the Seminar for Oriental Languages ​​in Berlin.

He married the following year and moved to Japan with his wife in 1937. There he initially worked as a foreign correspondent for the German News Office, and since 1941 lecturer for German, English and Indonesian-Malay at the commercial college in Takamatsu (Shikoku). During this time he began studying medicine.

After the end of the war he was interned until 1947 before returning to Germany. At the end of 1947 he took over an unscheduled editing for Chinese and Japanese. From 1948 to 1952 he also studied medicine. In 1949 he received his doctorate in the subjects of Japanese Studies, Sinology and the History of Medicine with a thesis on Wamyōruijushō , in 1951 his habilitation followed . He then worked as a lecturer for East Asian Studies in Münster until 1957 . In 1957 he was appointed associate professor in Bonn and in 1960 he was appointed full professor to the newly established chair for East Asian philology and cultural studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

Until his retirement in 1978, he pursued an expansion of his chair beyond Japanology and Sinology to include Southeast Asian studies.

Works

  • Pika-Don on Japan - reports by Japanese children, translated from the original by Otto Karow. Maximilian, 1955
  • Lê Thành Khôi (Author), Otto Karow (Editor): 3000 Years of Vietnam. Kindler, 1969
  • Otto Karow: The illustrations of the pharmacopoeia of the Shao-hsing period from the year 1159.Bayer, 1956
  • Otto Karow: Vietnamese-German dictionary = tu-dien, viet-duc. Harrassowitz, 1972
  • Opera minora: for the 65th birthday of the author Otto Karow. Selected and introduced by Hans Adalbert Dettmer and Gerlind Endress. Harrassowitz, 1978
  • Otto Karow, Irene Hilgers-Hesse : Indonesian-German Dictionary / Kamus Bahasa Indonesia-Djerman. Harrassowitz, 1986
  • Otto Karow: Symbolism of Buddhism. Hiersemann Verlag, 1989

literature

  • Edwin G. Beal Jr. / Andrew Y. Kuroda: The Japanese Collection of Otto Karow. Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Library of Congress, NOVEMBER 1948), pp. 3-7
  • Hans A. Dettmer: In Memoriam Otto Karow. News of the Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia (NOAG), Issue 149-150 (1991), pp. 7-8
  • Gerhild Endreß: Otto Karow's scientific writings. NOAG, No. 149-150 (1991), pp. 9-16

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wamyoruijusho - A contribution to the history of lexicography a. Language of the Nara and Heian periods with consideration of the medical literature. Diss. V. Jan. 7, 1949 (typescript)
  2. ↑ More in Endreß (1991)
personal data
SURNAME Karow, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karow, Otto Paul Rudolf (full name); Ku-yün (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist and Sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1992
Place of death Bad Homburg vd Höhe