Friedrich Hirth
Friedrich Hirth, Ph.D. (16 April 1845 Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha - 10 January 1927 Munich) was a German-American sinologist.[1]
Biography
He was educated at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Greifswald (Ph.D., 1869). He was in the Chinese maritime customs service from 1870 to 1897. In 1902, Professor Hirth was appointed to the professorship of Chinese in Columbia University (New York City).
Prior to World War II, a collection of Chinese manuscripts and printed books made by him was in the Royal Library at Berlin, and another of porcelains of considerable historical importance in the Gotha Museum; most of the Hirth collection from the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin is now in Kraków.[2] As an investigator he conducted researches in Chinese literature by imitation of the methods of classical philology.
Works
His chief publications include:
- China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Mediœval Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records (1885)
- Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade (1888)
- Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (two volumes, 1885-88)
- Chinesische Studien, volume i (1890)
- Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst (1896)
- Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians (1905)
- The Ancient History of China (1908)
- Chau Ju-kua, (1911) with W. W. Rockhill
- The Story of Chang K'ie'n, China's Pioneer in Western Asia (1917)
See also
References
External links
- Works written by or about Friedrich Hirth at Wikisource
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