Sunzi

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Sunzi ( Chinese  孫子  /  孙子 , Pinyin Sūnzǐ , W.-G. Sun Tzu , Jyutping Syun 1 Zi 2  - "literally Master Sun"; obsolete Lessing-Othmer Sun-dsï , Stange Sun Tse , Unger Sun Tsi , Sun Tsu , majority name 長卿  /  长卿 , Chángqīng , born as 孫武  /  孙武 , Sūn Wǔ ; * around 544 BC in Qi ; † around 496 BC in Wu ) was a Chinese general, military strategist and philosopher.

Life

Little is known about Sunzi's life. He was born as the son of a noble family in the then kingdom of Qi in hist. Le'an ( 樂 安  /  乐 安 , Lè'ān ), today's Huimin County in Shandong Province , according to other sources, his birthplace was the state of Wu; Sunzi lived between approx. 534 BC. BC and 453 BC BC, ie in the transition period during the spring and autumn annals (770–476 BC). He died in GUSU ( 姑蘇  /  姑苏 ) in the State of Wu - today Wuzhong , a district of the current city Suzhou .

About the art of war

His book “The Art of War” ( 孫子兵 法  /  孙子兵 法 , Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ  - “Sunzi about the art of war”) is considered to be the earliest book on strategy and to this day is one of the most important works on this topic.

Descendants

One of Sunzi's descendants was Sun Bin , a military strategist who also wrote a book on the arts of war.

Work and translations

  • Sunzi: On the Art of War , Sun Bin: On the Art of War , in a translation by Zhong Yingjie, Volkschina Verlag. ISBN 7-80065-508-3 (with a translation into modern Chinese); Revised new edition 2007 without Chinese text: Beijing , Publishing House for Foreign Language Literature , ISBN 978-7-119-04486-6 ; bilingual new edition 2009: Beijing, Publishing House for Military Science (军事 科学 出版社), ISBN 978-7-80237-250-4 .
  • Bruno Navarra: The book of war: the military classic of the Chinese - with pictures based on Chinese originals , Berlin: Boll and Pickardt, 1910; New edition as audio book: Sun Tzu: The Art of War - The Classic of Conflict Strategy. vocalbar-Verlag 2006, with an introduction by Dr. Jörg Lehmann, speaker: Uwe Neumann. Audio CD, running time 62 min. ISBN 3-939696-00-5 .
  • Ssun-ds': treatise on the art of war , publishing house of the Ministry of National Defense , Berlin ( GDR ), 1957. Translation from Chinese into Russian by JI Sidorenko, translation from Russian into German by Ina Balcerowiak.
  • Sun Tzu: The Thirteen Commandments of Martial Arts . ed. by Günter Maschke , Rogner & Bernhard , 1974
  • Sunzi: Die Kunst des Krieg , Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., 1988 and other editions, ISBN 3-426-66645-6
    This edition is based on the translation by Lionel Giles, edited and modified by James Clavell
  • Sun Tsu: Those who don't fight really win. The Art of War , Piper, 2001, ISBN 3-492-23330-9
    published by Thomas Cleary (contains many comments by ancient Chinese, but these are interspersed directly into the text; the original text cannot be read fluently)
  • Sun Tsu: About the Art of War , translation by Klaus Leibnitz, Karlsruhe, 1989, ISBN 3-88190-038-1 (first German direct translation)
  • Ames, Roger T .: Sun-Tzu The Art of Warfare - Translated with an Introduction and Commentary New York: Ballantine, 1993, ISBN 0-345-36239-X
  • Sun Zi: The Art of War, The New Illustrated Edition by Samuel B. Griffith (Evergreen), ISBN 3-8228-5650-9 . Samuel B. Griffith is an American military historian. This edition is a translation from English.
  • von Senger, Harro: Master Sun's war canon. Translated from the Chinese and commented by Harro von Senger. Stuttgart: Reclam 2011. (Reclams Universal Library No. 18841.) ISBN 978-3-15018841-5 .

literature

  • Sima Qian : Sunzi and Wu Qi. In: Gregor Kneussel (transl.): From the records of the chronicler ( Shiji ). Beijing: Publishing House for Foreign Language Literature, 2015, ISBN 978-7-119-09676-6 , Vol. 1, pp. 83–159.
  • Johnston, Alastair Iain: Cultural Realism. Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History, Princeton 1998.

See also

Web links

Commons : Sunzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Sunzi  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sun Wu - 孫武 / 孙武: (Chinese) [1] On: xh.5156edu.com, accessed February 20, 2019 - Online
  2. ↑ Sun Wu - 孫武 / 孙武: (Chinese) [2] At: dict.revised.moe.edu.tw, accessed on February 20, 2019 - online
personal data
SURNAME Sunzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sūnzǐ; 孙子 (simplified); 孫子 (traditional); 孫武 (real name, Chinese); Sūn Wŭ (real name); Sun Tsu; Sun Tzu; Sun Tse; Ssun-ds
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese general and military strategist
DATE OF BIRTH around 500 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Wu
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.