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Ernest Julius Walter Simon FBA (10 June 1893, Berlin - 22 February 1981, London) was Professor of Chinese, University of London, 1947-60. He was born in Berlin and lived there (being educated at the University of Berlin) until he fled the Nazis to London in 1934, where he spent all the rest of his life except for brief periods as a visiting professor in various countries.
[edit] Career
- Higher Library Service, Berlin University Library, 1919-35
- Exchange Librarian, National Library of Peking, 1932-33
- Lecturer in Chinese, University of Berlin, 1926-32; Extraordinary Professor of Chinese, University of Berlin, 1932-34
- Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1936; Reader in Chinese, University of London, 1938; Professor of Chinese, University of London, 1947-60, Emeritus Professor, 1960
- Visiting Professor: University of Toronto, 1961-62; Australian National University, Canberra, 1962; Tokyo, Canberra and Melbourne, 1970
[edit] Other work
- Editor, Asia Major, 1964-75
- Honorary Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Honorary Vice-President, Royal Asiatic Society, 1976-1981 (Gold Medal, 1977)
[edit] Publications
- Reconstruction of Archaic Chinese Final Consonants, 2 Parts, 1928-29 (in German)
- Tibetan Chinese Word Equations, 1930 (in German)
- Chinese Sentence Series, 3 volumes, 1942-44
- New Official Chinese Latin Script, 1942
- Chinese National Language (Gwoyeu) Reader, 1943 (2nd edn 1954, reprinted 1972)
- 1200 Chinese Basic Characters, 1944 (4th repr. 1975)
- How to Study and Write Chinese Characters, 1944 (3rd reprint 1975)
- Structure Drill through Speech Patterns, I. Structure Drill in Chinese, 1945 (2nd edn 1959, reprinted 1975)
- Beginners' Chinese-English Dictionary, 1947 (4th edn 1975)
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