Peter Pantzer

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Peter Pantzer (born October 15, 1942 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian Japanologist .

youth

On his father's side, his family comes from Neckenmarkt in what is now Burgenland, where his grandfather was mayor. His father was a civil servant in the Salzburg Chamber of Agriculture. Pantzer attended elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Salzburg. His drawing teacher was Rudolf Hradil . After graduating from high school (1960), Pantzer served two years in the armed forces (lieutenant d. Res.); From 1962 he studied modern history, German and Japanese studies in Vienna and graduated in 1968 with a Dr. phil off. During his studies he made friends a. a. with the painter and journalist Hertha Jugl-Jennewein , who bequeathed her collected correspondence with her fellow student, the painter Rudolf Hradil, for later publication.

Professional career

Study stay at the University of Tokyo from 1968-1971, then entry into the Institute for Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna as an assistant and lecturer. In 1976/1977 he held a one-year research position at the Tokyo Foreign Language University. 1986 Habilitation in Japanese Studies with special focus on the history of Japanese foreign relations. In 1988 he was appointed full professor. Relocation to Bonn, initially as a substitute professor, since 1994 full professor for Japanese Studies at the University of Bonn . 1988–1996 and 2005–2008 managing director of the Japanological seminar there. 1998/1999 visiting professor at the National Institute for Japanese Literature (Kokubunken), Tokyo. Pantzer has retired since 2008, lives and works in Vienna. In 2019 he was the curator of an exhibition at the Japaneum at Rabenstein Castle on the relationship between Japan and Europe between 1550 and 1914.

Focus

His main research interests are the diplomatic and cultural relations between Japan and the West in the 19th and 20th centuries; also works on the history of science in Japanology; also the recording of all edo-temporal Japanese printed works in Austrian libraries. Peter Pantzer is Honorary President of the German-Japanese Society Bonn.

In addition to his academic work, Peter Pantzer is also involved in the popular representation of Japanese history. He is the author of the new edition of volume 94 of the children's book series Was ist what about samurai .

In November 2017 it was published under the title 'Nur eine kleine Mulberry. But it weighed heavily on his annotated translation of 50 poems by the Japanese empress, on which he had worked in close cooperation with the Japanese imperial court.

Awards

Works

  • One hundred years of Japan - Austria. Tôkyô (Nichi-Ô kyôkai) 1970.
  • Japan and Austria-Hungary. Diplomatic, economic and cultural relations from their establishment to the First World War. (= Contributions to Japanology, Vol. 11). Vienna 1973.
  • Directory of journals in the library of the Institute for Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna. Inst. For Japanese Studies, Vienna 1974.
  • Nihon Ôsutoria kankei shi [History of Japanese-Austrian Relations]. Sôzôsha, Tôkyô 1984.
  • Japan and Austria. Photo documentation. The Japanese-Austrian relations from 1869 to the present. Japanese Embassy, ​​Vienna 1987.
  • August Pfizmaier 1808–1887. Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Austrian sinologist and Japanologist. Austrian National Library 18. – 29. May 1987. (Japanese Studies Series). Literas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1987.
  • with Julia Krejsa (actually Susanne Krejsa): Japanese Vienna. Herold-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-7008-0384-2 .
  • with Julia Krejsa: Uiin no Nihon. Ôshû ni nezuku ibunka no kiseki [Japanese Vienna. Traces of a Foreign Culture in Europe] The Simul Press, Tokyo 1990, ISBN 4-377-40837-2 .
  • Nihon Ôsutoria shûkô 130-shûnen kinen-ten. Aoyama Mitsuko, Kurimuto, sono jidai. 130 years of friendly relationships. Austrian-Japanese encounters. Mitsuko, Klimt and their time. Tokyo 1999.
  • Imari porcelain at the court of Empress Maria Theresa. Hetjens-Museum - German Ceramic Museum, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9804529-2-1 .
  • Japanese theater heaven over Europe's stages: Kawakami Otajiro, Sadayakko and their troupe on tour through Central and Eastern Europe in 1901/1902. Iudicum, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-89129-920-6 .
  • Samurai. (A What-Is-What book, Vol. 94). Tessloff Verlag, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-7886-0636-3 .
    • Samurai. (Zachem-i-pochemu series). Mir Knigi, Moscow 2007.
    • Los samurais. (Cómo y por qué series). Santillana Ediciones Generales, México: Altea 2008.
  • with Sven Saaler: Japanese impressions of an imperial envoy. Karl von Eisendecher in Japan during the Meiji period. Meiji shoki no Nihon. Doitsu gaikôkan Aisendecchâ kôshi no shashinchô yori. Iudicium, Munich / OAG, Tokyo 2007.
  • Mokichi Saitô. Bug diary. The little sorrows and joys of a Japanese student in Europe between the two great wars. (Translator and editor). Freiburg: Herder, 2011. ISBN 978-3-451-30523-8 .
  • With the Austro-Hungarian Navy on a visit to the Japanese Empire. In: Viribus Unitis. Annual report of the Army History Museum 2012. Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902551-37-5 , pp. 45–72.
  • "Original Japanese" on European stages. In: In the intoxication of cherry blossoms. Japan's theater and its influence on Europe's stage world. Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-759-5 , pp. 51–60.
  • Translation by Michiko , Empress of Japan: Only a small mulberry but it weighed heavily (poems), Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-31220-5 .
  • Austria's first trade delegate in Japan - Karl Ritter von Scherzer's Japan Diary 1869 Iudicium Verlag Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86205-120-5 .
  • with Nana Miyata: Friedrich Kirchner. With the SMS Empress Elisabeth in East Asia - The diary of a NCO of the kuk Kriegsmarine (1913-1920) Böhlau Vienna - Cologne - Weimar, 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-23256-8
  • with Nana Miyata: A treasure chest from the early Meiji period. Michael Moser and his photographic works from Japan Iudicium Verlag Munich, 2019, ISBN 978-3862051168 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.burg-rabenstein.at/japaneum/
  2. ↑ This is how this country sparkles in FAZ of November 11, 2017, page 18
  3. ↑ http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/news/wissen-und-bildung/wissenschaft/Hohe-Auszeichnung-für-Professor-Peter-Pantzer-article135997.html
  4. ↑ Review < http://www.krejsa-macmanus.eu/index.php?id=144 >

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personal data
SURNAME Pantzer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Japanologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg