Regine Mathias

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Regine Mathias (born October 13, 1950 in Kelheim ) is a German Japanologist who mainly deals with the history of Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries .

Scientific career

Mathias studied Japanese Studies, Sinology, History and Social and Economic History at the Ruhr University Bochum , the University of Fukuoka (Japan) and the University of Vienna . From 1974 to 1975 she was a PhD Fellow of the Japan Foundation at Kyūshū University in Fukuoka. She received her doctorate in Vienna in 1977. She then worked until 1991 as a lecturer or teacher for special tasks at the Japanese Department of the Seminar for Oriental Languages, then as a scientist in the Japanese Studies department at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . 1986 to 1987 she was again funded by the Japan Foundation, and stayed as a Research Fellow at the Keiō University in Tokyo.

In 1991 she became professor for the language and culture of modern Japan at the University of Duisburg-Essen and moved to Bochum in 1996.

In 2020 Mathias received the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize .

Other offices and functions

  • 1994–95 Vice Rector for Teaching, Studies and Study Reform in Duisburg
  • from 2012 member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Weber Foundation (formerly German Humanities Institutes Abroad - DGIA) for four years

Publications (selection)

  • Ed. Together with Atsushi Kataoka, Pia Tomoko Meid, Werner Pascha, Shingo Shimada: "Glückauf" in Japanese - Miners from Japan in the Ruhr area , Essen 2012
  • Everyday historical approaches in Japanese history , in: Hans Martin Krämer, Tino Schölz and Sebastian Conrad (eds.): History in Japan. Topics, approaches and theories , Göttingen 2006, pp. 189–212
  • Together with Erich Pauer: Development aid for Japan. The beginning of the modern iron and steel industry with technology from the Ruhr area , in: Manfred Rasch and Dietmar Bleidick (eds.): History of technology in the Ruhr area, history of technology for the Ruhr area. Festschrift for Wolfhard Weber on his 65th birthday , Essen 2004, pp. 730–746
  • Social movements in pre-war Japan: a socio-historical classification , in: Claudia Derichs and Anja Osiander (eds.): Social movements in Japan , Hamburg 1998, pp. 15–36
  • Female labor in the Japanese coal-mining industry , in: Janet Hunter (ed.): Japanese Women Working - Past and Presence , London / New York 1993, pp. 98-121
  • The Japanese Education Society. Structure, special features and problems of the Japanese education system , in: Japan, Kohlhammer pocket books Der Bürger im Staat, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 153–169
  • German opinions on Japan. From the founding of the Reich to the Third Reich , in: J. Kreiner (ed.): Germany-Japan. Historical contacts , Bonn 1984, pp. 115–140

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Mathias, Regine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of Japan
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim