Hellmut Wilhelm

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Hellmut Wilhelm (1905-1990) was a German sinologist.

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Hellmut Wilhelm was born in 1905 in the city of Qingdao, located in the province of Shandong in what is now the People's Republic of China. He was the son of the prominent missionary and sinologist Richard Wilhelm.

During his exile in Beijing, Wilhelm wrote a Chinese-German dictionary, the first edition of which appeared in 1945.

From 1948 to 1971, he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. A collection that includes documents relating to his life, photographs, and manuscripts of his scientific work on Gu Ting Lin, the I Ching, and Parerga can be found in the "German Exiles Archive" of the German National Library.

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