Sepp Linhart

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Sepp Linhart (born May 12, 1944 in Pinkafeld ) is an Austrian Japanologist . As a professor he teaches at the University of Vienna . For his work he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun on a ribbon with golden rays .

Life

Linhart, who had already begun to deal with the Japanese language during his military service in the Austrian Armed Forces , studied Japanese studies, sociology and ethnology at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate as a Dr. phil initially worked as an assistant in 1970. In 1977 he was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities . In 1978 he was appointed full professor and head of the Institute for Japanese Studies, and in 2001 he was appointed head of the Institute for East Asian Studies.

He has been visiting professor at the University of Kyoto , the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and the University of Paris VII .

From 1988 to 1991, Linhart served as both President of the European Association for Japanese Studies and Vice President of the Association for Social Science Studies in Japan . From 1993 to 1995 he was President of the Academic Working Group Japan .

In 2007 he was honored for his work with the Order of the Rising Sun on a ribbon with golden rays , in 2012 with the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class .

research

Linhart researches mainly in the fields of modern social and cultural history of Japan. He became known in particular for his publications on Japanese everyday, leisure and game culture. It was one of his books on this subject, his 1998 Japanese Cultural History of the Game of Ken, which won him the Osaka Prefecture's Yamagata Bantō Prize in 2005.

Fonts (selection)

  • Work, leisure and family in Japan. An examination of the way of life of blue-collar and white-collar workers in large companies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-447-01740-6 .
  • Forms of organization of old people in Japan. Self-realization through hobbies, further education, work. Institute for Japanese Studies, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-900362-01-7 .
  • Ken no bunkashi. Kadokawa shoten, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 4-04-702103-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 18th edition (2001). Vol. 2, p. 1901.
  2. ↑ a b Unrath, Dieter N .: " Two high honors to Japanologist Sepp Linhart ." Archive of the online newspaper of the University of Vienna , January 31, 2005.
  3. ↑ a b c CV of Sepp Linharts  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the University of Vienna@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kenkyuu.eas.univie.ac.at  
  4. ^ History of the EAJS: Presidents , website of the European Association for Japanese Studies
  5. ↑ A short chronicle of the Academic Working Group Japan ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Academic Working Group Japan @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aaj.at
  6. ↑ Japanese medals to Dr. Kadlecek and Prof. Linhart ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Japan Today & Tomorrow online @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.at.emb-japan.go.jp
  7. ^ Petra Schiefer, Prizes and Awards , University of Vienna online newspaper, November 29, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Linhart, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinkafeld