Thomas O. Höllmann

Thomas Otfried Höllmann (born February 29, 1952 in Eggenfelden ) is a German sinologist , author and President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2017 .

Life

Höllmann received his doctorate in Sinology in 1981 and his habilitation in Ethnology in 1986 . He received his first appointment in 1987 from the University of Heidelberg . Visiting professorships have taken him to Beijing (Archaeological Institute of the Academy for Social Sciences), Canberra (Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University ), Tempe (Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University ) and Oxford (Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford ). His research focus lies in the area of cultural history , for the reconstruction of which he uses archaeological and written sources in equal measure.

Until September 2017, Höllmann was Professor of Sinology and Ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since then he has been the full-time president of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, for which he had previously taken on several tasks (class secretary, vice president, representative in the Scientific Commission of the Union of German Academies of Sciences ). At LMU he was jointly responsible for setting up the graduate school “Forms of Prestige” and the graduate school “Distant Worlds”. Höllmann is, among other things, Vice President of the Union of German Academies of Sciences, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation and a member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Han Art at the University of Beijing .

Books

As an author (since 2004):

• 2004: The Silk Road . Munich: CH Beck. Hungarian translation 2006, Spanish translation 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-50854-7
• 2008: Ancient China: A Cultural History . Munich: CH Beck. Chinese translation 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-57071-1
• 2009: Tribes and Tributaries: Chinese Perceptions of Foreigners and Strangers . Tempe: Center for Asian Research, Arizona State University.
• 2010: Sleeping Lotus, Drunk Chicken: Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine. CH Beck, Munich 2010. American translation 2013, Chinese translation 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-60539-0
• 2013: Whispers of the wind: Chinese poems about transience. Munich CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-406-65345-2
• 2015: The Chinese writing: history, characters, calligraphy . Munich: CH Beck. American translation 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-68290-2
• 2019: Inseparable, carefree and crazy: Chinese poems about friendship . Göttingen: Wallstein, ISBN 978-3-8353-3589-9

As editor (since 2004):

• 2004 (together with Shing Müller and Putao Gui): Guangdong: Archeology and Early Texts. South China and Maritime Asia 13, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
• 2004 (together with Michael Friedrich): Manuscripts of the Yao . Directory of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany 44, Stuttgart: Steiner.
• 2009 (together with Xiaobing Wang-Riese): Time and Ritual in Early China . Asian research 153, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
• 2019 (together with Shing Müller and Sonja Filip): Early Medieval North China. Archaeological and Textual Evidence . Asian research 159, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Movie

Confucius says ... Four-part BR documentary filmed in China: first broadcast in 2016/2017, director: Thomas Hausner; Thomas O. Höllmann and Sha Hua as protagonists

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas O. Höllmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Thomas O. Höllmann - Institute for Sinology - LMU Munich. In: sinologie.uni-muenchen.de. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; Retrieved November 3, 2017 . 
2. ^ Thomas O. Höllmann becomes the new president of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In: badw.de. Retrieved November 3, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Confucius says ... (1/4) - FSO South. In: programm.ard.de. January 4, 2016, accessed November 3, 2017 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann	President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2017