Tilemann Grimm

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Tilemann Grimm (born February 27, 1922 in Höxter ; † July 25, 2002 in Göttingen ) was Professor of Sinology (Chinese culture, history and languages) in Münster (1962–1965), Bochum (1965–1974) and Tübingen (1974– 1989).

Life

Grimm came to Beijing with his parents as a toddler and lived in China from the age of 2 to 13, where he attended the German Embassy School in Beijing from 1928 . He learned Chinese as a child and dealt intensively with his Chinese environment, which is why his classmates ridiculed him as "Sinolögchen".

From 1930 Grimm lived with his family in Tianjin until he left China again in 1934, two years earlier than his parents. His mother, Irmgard Grimm, was of the opinion that it could not be good for her son to grow up as a "master" in China, where "white children" were spoiled beyond measure. His father, Reinhold Grimm, accompanied him to Germany, while his mother stayed behind with the other two children in Tianjin. In the course of the voyage, Reinhold Grimm only really got to know his now 14-year-old son and took a liking to the boy.

He was an editor at the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt .

Grimm later studied Sinology and Japanese Studies in Hamburg ; In 1953 he received his doctorate with a thesis on The Neiko of the Ming period and completed his habilitation in 1959 on education and politics in Confucian China of the Ming period . In 1978 he was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . 1985/1986 Grimm was a research fellow at the Historical College in Munich.

Research priorities

Grimm worked as the Maoism - expert known. His translation of the Red Book appeared in 1967 and is still used today. His monograph on Mao Zedong , published in 1968, has seen numerous new editions.

Other areas of research by Grimm were the Ming Dynasty and Burma .

Publications (selection)

  • The Red Book - Words of Chairman Mao Tse-tung . Fischer, 1967
  • Mao Tse-tung. With testimonials and photo documents . Rowohlt, 1968 (16th edition: 2001). ISBN 3499501414
  • Master Kung - On the history of the effects of Confucius . Westdeutscher Verlag, 1976. ISBN 978-3531072166
  • Viewpoints on Southeast Asia. Historical and cultural anthropological questions about politics (= writings of the historical college. Lectures, vol. 15). Munich 1988 ( digitized version )

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Supplementary summary of the dissertation in the journal Oriens Extremus
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Tilemann Grimm. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 8, 2016 .
  3. ^ Historical College - Tilemann Grimm. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Tilemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2002
Place of death Goettingen