Walter Fuchs (Sinologist)

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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 .

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  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 14th edition, 1983, p. 4824.
personal data
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