Vietnam Studies

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The academic discipline and the subject of Vietnam Studies deal with the research and teaching of the language and culture of the Vietnamese in its historical development. The aim of the research discipline Vietnam Studies, supported by various methodologically and theoretically well-founded disciplines, especially the humanities and social sciences , and the subject based on it, is a differentiated and at the same time holistic understanding of the Vietnamese language and culture.

The European roots of Vietnam Studies go back over 300 years. Portuguese and French missionaries came to Vietnam at the end of the 16th century. They later began to create the Vietnamese script based on the Portuguese script to better spread the gospel . In the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century, Vietnam Studies developed in France and French Indochina as an independent branch of the modern humanities.

In Germany, Vietnam Studies is offered exclusively at the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg . The first course was established in 1982. Before that, Vũ Duy Từ was a lecturer for the language and culture of Vietnam and then from 1984 to 1999 as a professor. The Vietnam Studies course, which has been offered at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 1970 , became the Southeast Asian Studies course 4 years after the fall of the river together with Indonesian Studies and Southeast Asian Studies . In 1998 the Berlin professorship in Vietnam Studies was also canceled. Jörg Thomas Engelbert has held the professorship at the University of Hamburg since 2002 . Vietnam Studies is classified as a minor subject in German university policy .

literature

  • Kathrin Raitza (1995): Twenty-five years of Vietnam Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . 35 pages
  • Thomas Engelbert (2013): Vietnam Studies and Vietnam Studies at the University of Hamburg . 19 pages (PDF file; 220 kB)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Engelbert: page 1 f.
  2. ↑ 30 years of Vietnam Studies at the University of Hamburg ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Press release of the University of Hamburg from June 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Engelbert: page 16.
  4. ↑ University structure plan 1998 (PDF file; 1.1 MB) Humboldt University Berlin, accessed on November 18, 2013.
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jörg Thomas Engelbert - Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). University of Hamburg. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  6. ↑ Small Subjects: Vietnam Studies on the Small Subjects portal , accessed on April 23, 2019