Wilhelm Grube

Wilhelm Grube (born August 17, 1855 in Saint Petersburg , † July 2, 1908 in Halensee near Berlin ) was a German sinologist , linguist and ethnologist .

Life

Wilhelm Grube was a curator at the Asian Museum of the Petersburg Academy , but went to Berlin in 1883 as assistant director of the Museum of Ethnology . He was a student of the Petersburg sinologist Wassili Wassiljew and the Leipzig linguist Georg von der Gabelentz . In 1884 he became a private lecturer , in 1892 an associate professor of Sinology . Otto Franke , Emil Krebs, Berthold Laufer and Erich Haenisch were among his students.

Grube also conducted studies on Manchurian and related languages. He was in correspondence with the Petersburg Iranist Carl Salemann and with the ethnologist Max Uhle , who later worked in Peru .

Grube found his final resting place in the Wilmersdorf cemetery .

Fonts

• Li Khi, Reason and Matter 1879
• Giljak Dictionary 1892
• Beijing funerary customs 1898
• Language and writing of the Jučen . Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1896
• Goldisch -German dictionary 1900
• On Beijing Folklore. Berlin: Spemann, 1901
• History of Chinese Literature. Leipzig: Amelang, 1902
• Religious history reading book . Tübingen: Mohr, 1908
• History of Chinese literature 2nd edition Leipzig: Amelang, 1909 ( The literature of the East in individual representations )
• Religion and Cult of the Chinese. Leipzig: Haupt, 1910
• Fêng-shên-yên-i: The ...; Vol. 1 / Herbert Mueller. - 1912
• Fêng-shên-yên-i: The Metamorphoses of the Gods; Hist.-mythol. Novel from d. Chinese / Herbert Mueller . - Leiden: Brill, 1912
• Chinese shadow plays. Munich: Publ. Of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1915 (edited by Berthold Laufer )
• Chinese shadow plays. Edited by Wilhelm Grube and Emil Krebs . Leipzig, Harrassowitz, 1915. Printed by the Catholic Mission of Yen-chou-fu, Shantung. (Original Chinese text, a German translation by Wilhelm Grube and Emil Krebs appeared in the same year, edited by Berthold Laufer in Munich)
• A contribution to the knowledge of the Chinese philosophy 通 書T'ûng-šû des Ceu-tsï with Cû-hî 's commentary. According to the Síng-lì tsīng-í . Chinese with Manchuian and German translation and annotations. Edited by Wilhelm Grube (Chapters 1–20). Continued and finished by Werner Eichhorn (chap. 21–40). In: Asia Major , Volume 8, 1932, pp. 23-104, PDF; 1.46 MB (first in two parts 1880–1881)

literature

• Hans OH Stange:  Pit, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Grube (1855-1908). Life, work and collections of the linguist, ethnologist and sinologist. Edited by Hartmut Walravens and Iris Hopf . ISBN 978-3-447-05109-5 ( Asia and Africa Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin )
• Hartmut Walravens: Wilhelm Grube (1855–1908) and Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) - two distinguished Altaists , in Central Asiatic Journal, Vol. 56 (2012/2013), pp. 219-256

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Grube in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the courses of Wilhelm Grube at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1881 to summer semester 1882)