Rudolf Lange (Japanologist)

Page from Lange's "Introduction to Japanese Writing" 1st edition 1896

Rudolf Lange (born July 12, 1850 in Berlin ; † August 24, 1933 there ) was a German linguist and Japanologist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Rudolf Lange from Berlin completed his studies in classical philology and German . As a result, he was briefly employed as a high school teacher at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin, before in 1874 he received an offer for a teaching position for German, Latin and geography at the Medical School in Tokyo , which was later incorporated into the Imperial University of Tokyo as the Medical Faculty , which he filled out until 1881. During this time he was also involved in the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia , founded in 1873 , in whose communications he published a number of works. He was particularly fond of Japanese proverbs and proverbial sayings.

In 1887, after founding the Seminar for Oriental Languages ​​(SOS), he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. There he was the first and only professor of Japanese - Karl Florenz was the first professor of Japanese studies in the German-speaking area in 1914 at the University of Hamburg - with the linguistic and cultural training of diplomats, businesspeople, interpreters and scientists. In 1920, Lange retired from professional life for health reasons - he was handicapped by increasing eye weakness and a nervous problem.

Rudolf Lange, one of the founders of German Japanology, wrote basic textbooks on the Japanese language and writing.

Fonts

• Textbook of Japanese colloquial language: Form theory and the most important rules of syntax, Stuttgart [u. a.]: Spemann, 1890 (textbooks of the seminar for oriental languages ​​in Berlin, volume 1)
• Japanese coat of arms, In: Communications from the seminar for oriental languages ​​at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin, pp. 63–281, 1903
• Exercise and reading book for the study of Japanese writing, G. Reimer, 1904 (textbooks of the seminar for oriental languages ​​in Berlin, volume 19)
• Lange, Rudolf / Noss, Christopher: A text-book of colloquial Japanese. Based on the Textbook of Japanese Colloquial Language by Dr. Rudolf Lange . Tokyo: Methodist Publ. House, 1907.
• Thesaurus japonicus: Japanese-German dictionary; ; Lexicon of the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language and their compositions, including the various types of pronunciation and meanings, Volume 1–3, De Gruyter, [1913 -]
• Introduction to Japanese writing, 1st edition Stuttgart & Berlin: W. Spemann, 1896 (textbooks of the seminar for oriental languages ​​in Berlin, volume 15)
• A few more proverbs and proverbs of the Japanese (continuation of Japanese proverbs and sayings by A. von Knobloch), Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Volume I (1873–1876), Issue 8, pp. 50–52
• A few more proverbs and proverbs , ditto, issue 9, pp. 59–60
• A few more Japanese proverbs. ditto, issue 10, pp. 34-37
• The fight on Ueno (July 4th 1868) . Announcements from the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia. Volume II (1876-1880), Issue 13, pp. 96-101
• The Taketori Monogatari . ditto, issue 17, pp. 303-318
• Japanese proverbs . ditto, issue 20, pp. 415-421
• Critical considerations on the "Comments and Corrections" . Announcements from the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia. Volume VIII (1899-1902), Part 1, pp. 23-51
• Florence, Carl / Lange, Rudolf: The meaning of the pronoun "dore" . Announcements from the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia. Volume IX (1902-1903), Part 2, pp. 291-295

literature

• Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 21st Edition , Volume 16, Page 304, March 2006; ISBN 3-7653-4143-6 .

Web links

• Appreciation from Lange, Rudolf. (PDF; 33 kB) In: www.hadamitzky.de , accessed on October 22, 2010
• Article about Lange, Rudolf. In: www2.hu-berlin.de