Raimund Th. Kolb

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Raimund Theodor Kolb (born 1949 ) is a German sinologist .

Life

Kolb studied Sinology , Ethnology , Indonesian Studies in Berlin and History in Taipei . He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1985 and his habilitation in 1993 .

From 1998 to 2015 Kolb was Professor of Sinology at the University of Würzburg . His main research interests are environmental history , historical crime and military history of China.

He wrote the foreword to the book The Migration Problem, published posthumously in 2016, and the epilogue to the volume of essays Finis Germania by the historian Rolf Peter Sieferle in 2017 and acts as his estate administrator.

Kolb is a member of the Berlin Scientific Society (BWG) and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . He has lived in Vienna since 2020.

Fonts

  • The infantry in ancient China. A contribution to the military history of the pre-Zhan Guo period. Dissertation. Free University of Berlin 1985. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1991.
  • Agriculture in ancient China. Part 1: Shang-Yin. Systemata Mundi, Berlin 1992.
  • The East Asian migratory locust and its control with special consideration of the Ming and Qing periods (1368–1911). Ed. Forum, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 978-3-927943-14-8 .
  • with Martina Siebert (ed.): About heaven and earth. Festschrift for Erling von Mende . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006.
  • "Some texts on disaster relief in the 11th century from the Jiuhuang huomin shu   by Dong Wei".  China leaves   No. 19 (80th birthday of Prof. H. Franke), 1994: 41-61
  • "Entomophagy in China - A Historical Inventory". In: Cultures and Innovations - Festschrift for Wolfgang Rudolph. Edited by G. Elwert, J. Jensen and Ivan R. Kortt. Berlin 1996: 261-289
  • "Dealing with Soils in Premodern China". In: Handbook of Soil Science . Blume et al. (Ed.). The premodern Cina 1.2.5. ECOMED life sciences. Landsberg 2006, pp. 1-7.
  • "Large Basket, Two Chests, and Liang Mountain - Examples of Begging Organization in Jilin Province and Inner Mongolia in the Early 20th Century". In: And now follow what my heart desires - Festschrift for Ulrich Unger on his 70th birthday . R. Emmerich / H. Stumpfeldt (ed.). Hamburg 2002: 293-328
  • "About Figures and Aggregates - Some Arguments for a More Scrupulous Evaluation of Quantitative Data in the History of Population and Agriculture." In: Agriculture, Population and Economic Development in China and Europe. Rolf Peter Sieferle u. Helga Breuninger (ed.). Der Europäische Sonderweg Vol. 10., 2003: 200-275
  • "Popular Religion and the Control of Locust Plagues in Qing China (1644-1911)". In: Minsu quyi (Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theater and Folklore), No.143, March 2004, pp.49-87
  • “The Jinmen cauldron cliques. Insights into the liumang culture of the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ”In: Historische Anthropologie , Vol. 14, H. 2, 2006: 193-231
  • "Excursions in Chinese Military History . “In: Monumenta Serica , Vol. LIV, 2006: 435-464
  • "Neither sound nor smell and the demon disappears" - A short historical look at the common way of dealing with latrine gods and demons in China. In: About heaven and earth - Festschrift for Erling von Mende . R.Th. Kolb et al. Martina Siebert (ed.). Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 2006: 229-259
  • "Evildoers, avengers and rebels" - The hanzeit "young men" ( shaonian ). A quick look at the early history of the liumang phenomenon. In: Han-Zeit - Festschrift for Hans Stumpfeldt on the occasion of his 65th birthday . In: Lunwen - Studies on intellectual history and literature in China 8, Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 2006: 425-442
  • "The economy of begging using the example of Beijing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." In: In Menschen und Markt - Studies on historical economic anthropology . W. Reinhardt et al. J. Stagl (ed.). Böhlau: Vienna, 2007: 173-201
  • "Brief outline of the methodological inventory for combating agricultural insect pests in premodern China." In: Praying, vaccinating, collecting - On cattle diseases and pest control in the early modern period. Katharina Engelken et al. (Ed.). Universitätsverlag Göttingen: Göttingen, 2007: 191-230
  • "About grave robbers and grave robbers and how one tried to fight them off. A small contribution to the criminal history of the Han period." In the text a friend - explorations of ancient Chinese . Dedicated to Robert Gassmann . Roland Altenburger et al. (Ed.), Peter Lang, Bern, 2009, pp. 91–124.
  • "The premodern knowledge of the zifang   and the fight against their plagues". In: Animals in Ancient China - Studies in Cultural History . Roderich Ptak (ed.). Maritime Asia 20, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 147–166.
  • "The thug guilds ( dahang ) of Jiangnan - traces of a prominent facet of organized violent crime in the late imperial era (1368–1911). In: Historische Anthropologie , Vol. 22, H. 2, 2014: 210-249.

literature

  • Raimund Th. Kolb , biographical note from: Roland Altenburger (ed.): A friend to the text: Explorations of ancient Chinese; Dedicated to Robert H. Gassmann . Bern: Lang, 2009 ISBN 978-3-03-911616-4 , p. 381

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Sinology in Würzburg , at the University of Würzburg
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Raimund Th.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolb, Raimund Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949