Peter Pörtner

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Peter Pörtner (* 1953 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German Japanologist . He teaches as a professor at the Japan Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

After studying East Asian Studies , Philosophy , German Philology and Musicology in Marburg and Tübingen from 1972 to 1979, Pörtner first moved to Japan, where he studied at the University of Tokyo until 1981 and then as a lecturer at the Foreign Language University Osaka (Osaka Gaikokugo Daigaku, Osaka University Faculty of Foreign Studies since 2007 ). After returning to Germany in the same year, he initially worked as a research assistant and university assistant at the Department of Language and Culture of Japan at the University of Hamburg . After completing his doctorate with a thesis on Nishida Kitarōs Über das Gute 1990, the following year the habilitation on the subject of madness, obsession and deviant behavior in selected literary and documentary texts of the Japanese premodern followed. In 1992 he was appointed head of the Japan Center at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He held this office until 2002.

From 1995 to 1998 he took over the 1st chairmanship of the Society for Japanese Studies, as its auditor he currently serves (as of December 2014).

Fonts (selection)

  • Nishida Kitarōs Zen-no-kenkyū ("About the good"). Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-928463-45-4 .
  • (with Jens Heise ): The Philosophy of Japan. From the beginnings to the present (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 431). Kröner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-520-43101-7 .
  • Japan: from Buddha's smile to design - a journey through 2500 years of Japanese art and culture. DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7701-4092-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Peter Pörtner on the website of the Japan Center of the LMU Munich (accessed September 13, 2013)
  2. ↑ Board of Directors and Auditors of the GJF , homepage of the Society for Research on Japan (accessed December 4, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Portner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn