Ralf Moritz

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Ralf Moritz (born May 2, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German sinologist .

biography

Moritz attended the 21st elementary school in Leipzig from 1947 to 1955, after which he switched to the Humboldt Extended High School , which he attended from 1955 to 1959. He studied philosophy in Leipzig from 1959 to 1963 and Sinology and Chinese philosophy in Beijing from 1963 to 1966, and received his doctorate in 1969 from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with the academic degree of Dr. phil., received his doctorate again in 1980 as Dr. sc. phil. in the history of Chinese philosophy and became Professor of Sinology at the University of Leipzig in 1984 .

From 1981 to 1984 Moritz was a lecturer in the history of Chinese philosophy at the Karl Marx University and later University of Leipzig, from 1984 to 1990 professor of sinology in the African and Middle Eastern Studies section, and from 1991 to 1993 professor in the Faculty of Culture -, linguistics and educational sciences and finally from 1994 to 2006 Professor of Classical Sinology at the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies.

He was deputy from 1983 to 1986. Director of the African / Middle Eastern Studies Section, 1988–93 head of the South and East Asia teaching and research area, 1993 founding director of the new East Asian Institute at the University of Leipzig and 2007 founding director of the Leipzig Confucius Institute . His research focus is Confucianism . In the 1980s Moritz was a member of the scientific advisory boards for Asian, African and Latin American studies, for philosophy and for ancient history and archeology at the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education in the GDR, and also of the problem council for current China research. In the 1990s he was a long-time member of the DAAD selection committee. Moritz held a visiting professorship at the Free University of Berlin in the 2009/10 winter semester.

During his research and teaching activities in the GDR , he also spent lectures and research stays in the Soviet Union , the People's Republic of China , Taiwan , the Netherlands and the USA .

Ralf Moritz has been co-editor of the Central German (Leipzig) Studies on East Asia since 1998. Under his direction, with funding from the DFG, the old sinological holdings of the Leipzig University Library were indexed.

Works (selection)

As an author

  • Hui Shi and the Development of Philosophical Thought in Ancient China. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973.
  • Philosophen Reader (in 2 volumes) (co-author and co-editor). Dietz Verlag Berlin 1988
  • The philosophy in ancient China. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-326-00466-4 .
  • The Confucianism and the pluralism of modernity. Academia Sinica. Institute for Literature and Philosophy, Taipei 2002 (Chinese).
  • The problem of world knowledge in comparison between Confucian thought and modern European philosophy. Academia Sinica. Institute for Literature and Philosophy, Taipei 2004 (Chinese).

As editor

  • Confucius : Conversations. Reclam, Leipzig 1982; most recently: Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-009656-7 (also translator).
  • Classes and class structure in the PRC. Verlag Nauka, Moscow 1982 (Russian; also co-author).
  • with Hiltrud Rüstau, Gerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann : How and why did philosophy come about in different regions of the world? Dietz, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-320-01022-0 (also co-author).
  • Sinological traditions reflected in new research. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-929031-36-1 (also co-author).
  • with Lee Ming-Huei: Confucianism. Origins, developments, perspectives. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-933240-03-4 (also co-author).
  • The great learning (Daxue). Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018265-4 (also translator).

Awards

  • 2006: University medal from the University of Leipzig
Recording in
  • the US biographical work Who's Who in the World (2003 and subsequent years). New Providence / New Jersey, Marquis Who's Who Publication Board.
  • the Cambridge biography 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (2004 and subsequent years). Cambridge, International Biographical Center.
  • Great Minds of the 21st Century (2005 and subsequent years), Raleigh / North Carolina, American Biographical Institute.
  • International Directory of Experts and Expertise (2005 and subsequent years). Raleigh / North Carolina, American Biographical Institute.
  • Leading Educators of the World 2013. Cambridge International Biographical Center.
  • Who is Who in the Federal Republic of Germany (2006 and subsequent years). Hübner's Who is Who, Zug / CH, Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography of the University of Leipzig (PDF; 6 kB) Retrieved on June 11, 2013.
  2. ^ Kai Filipiak: Historical research on China at the University of Leipzig. (PDF; 97 kB) AHF Munich, p. 1f , archived from the original on September 3, 2013 ; accessed on June 11, 2013 (German).
  3. ↑ Preparation of a Confucius Institute is being prepared. Press release of June 14, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c d e profile on uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Moritz, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Germany