Walter Fuchs (Sinologist)
Walter Fuchs (born August 1, 1902 in Berlin , † March 5, 1979 in Cologne ) was a German sinologist and tungusologist .
Life
Walter Fuchs studied with the Dutch sinologist de Groot Jan Jacob Maria and was in 1925 Otto Franke Doctor of Philosophy in Berlin doctorate . His dissertation was published in 1927 under the title The political history of the Turfanggebiet until the end of the Tang period in the East Asian magazine . After completing his doctorate, he worked as a curator at the Berlin Museum of Ethnology and went to Mukden as a lecturer in 1926 . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1938 he moved to Beijing , where he taught at the Catholic Fu-Jen University and from 1940 worked at the Germany Institute.
In 1947 he had to leave China and was interned in Ludwigsburg . Because of his membership in the NSDAP, he did not get a job as a scientist. He lived with his parents in Berlin-Frohnau and in 1948 in Seefeld. In 1949 he took up a substitute professorship at the University of Hamburg , in 1951 he received his habilitation under Erich Haenisch and in the same year moved to Munich as a private lecturer. From 1956 he was Professor of Sinology, first at the Free University of Berlin and from 1960 to 1970 at the University of Cologne .
Fuchs dealt with recent Chinese history , Manchurian language and literature, and Chinese cartography . He contributed to the Tungusology section in the Altaistik volume of the Handbook of Oriental Studies and was co-editor of the scientific journals Monumenta Serica , Sinologica Basel , Oriens Extremus and Sinologica Coloniensia . Michael Weiers dedicated the Festschrift Florilegia Manjurica to him posthumously in 1982 .
Publications (selection)
- For the technical organization of the translations of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. In: Asia Major . 6, 1930, ISSN 0004-4482 , pp. 84-103, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF; 495 KB ).
- To the Mandjur Kandjur. In: Asia Major. 6, 1930, pp. 388–402, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF; 359 KB ), (supplement in 7, 1932, pp. 484–485, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF ; 38 KB )).
- New material on Mandjur literature from Beijing libraries. In: Asia Major. 7, 1932, pp. 469–482, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF; 340 KB ).
- Early Mandjur princely tombs near Liao-Yang. In: Asia Major. Volume 10, 1934, pp. 94–123, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF; 572 KB ).
literature
- Wolfgang Franke : Walter Fuchs in memoriam. In: Oriens Extremus. Vol. 27, 1980, ISSN 0030-5197 , pp. 141-150.
- Martin Gimm : Directory of the writings of Prof. Dr. Walter Fuchs. In: Oriens Extremus. Vol. 19, 1972, pp. 1-7.
- Martin Gimm: Supplements to the list of publications by Prof. Dr. Walter Fuchs. In: Michael Weiers (Ed.): Florilegia Manjurica. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-447-02283-3 , pp. 3-6.
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 13th edition, 1980, ISSN 0341-8049 , p. 1009.
- Utz Maas: Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933–1945. Volume 2. Secolo, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-929979-71-3 , pp. 415-416.
- Hartmut Walravens: On the biography of the sinologist Walter Fuchs (1902–1979). In: News of the Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia . No. 177-178, 2005, ISSN 0016-9080 , pp. 117-149.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 14th edition, 1983, p. 4824.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fuchs, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sinologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | March 5th 1979 |
Place of death | Cologne |