Siegfried Englert
Siegfried Englert (* 1947 in Worms ) is a German sinologist . He was a professor at the East Asia Institute at the University of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and was State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .
Life
Born in 1947 in Worms, Englert graduated from primary school in Zweibrücken in 1954 and from grammar school in Worms from 1959. During this time he spent nine months in France, six months in England and six months in Japan as an exchange student. From 1967 he completed his military service. Englert studied Sinology at the University of Heidelberg from 1969. He spent part of his studies as an exchange student in the USA and Taiwan and as a scholarship holder at Peking University . 1977 followed the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the University of Heidelberg.
As a research assistant at the Sinological Seminar at Heidelberg University , in 1980 he looked after the first groups of scholarship holders from the People's Republic of China who came to study in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1981 he initiated the partnership between Heidelberg University and the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute (today: Shanghai International Studies University).
In 1989 Siegfried Englert founded the Marketing East Asia course ( East Asia Institute since 1997) in Ludwigshafen , a pilot project that was the first to combine business administration studies with Chinese language and culture. Also in 1989 he led the negotiations that led to the partnership between Rhineland-Palatinate and the Chinese province of Fujian . In 1995 he worked in the same function in the town twinning between Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and the city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province.
1996 Englert had leave of absence in order in Beijing , the first branch of SAP AG to build in China. From that time until 2006 he was also the curator of the Klaus Tschira Foundation gGmbH in Heidelberg. From 2006 to 2011, Englert worked as State Secretary in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture (MWVLW) in Mainz. In 2015 he handed over the management of the East Asia Institute to Barbara Darimont. He is an honorary officer for international cooperation for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Englert is also chairman of the DRK district association Worms eV
Fonts
- Materials on the position of women and on sexuality in premodern and modern China . Frankfurt am Main: 1980 (dissertation); ISBN 3881293035
- The cathedral of Worms . Worms: Kath. Propsteipfarramt Dom St. Peter, 2nd edition 1986.
- 100 x China (together with the geographer Gert Grill); ISBN 3411017198
- City over the Sea (together with the historian Folker Reichert ); ISBN 3920431359
- Very gradually (Festschrift for Günther Debon ). ISBN 978-3920431628
- Quanzhou - attempting a rapprochement . Annweiler: Plöger Medien, 2012; ISBN 978-3-89857-269-9
- 走近 泉州 (Zǒujìn Quánzhōu, approach to Quanzhou, translated by Zhu Yufang). Shanghai: Wenhua Chubanshe, 2013. ISBN 978-7-5535-0079-9
- Fujian Province in the PR China (together with Dai Yi 戴 毅 and Josef Först). Annweiler: Plöger, 2013. ISBN 978-3-89857-289-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Our institute. In: East Asia Institute. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Siegfried Englert. In: DRK Kreisverband Worms e. V. Accessed June 11, 2020 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Siegfried Englert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the East Asia Institute ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Englert, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sinologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worms , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany |