Herbert Franke (sinologist)

Herbert Franke ( born September 27, 1914 in Cologne, † 10 June 2011) was a German sinologist.

Life

Franke studied history, philosophy and law at the universities of Cologne, Bonn and Berlin. In 1937 he became a Doctor of Law and Doctor of Philosophy in 1947. From 1949 he was a lecturer at the University of Cologne. In the years 1951 and 1952 he was a British Council Fellow at the University of Cambridge. At the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich from 1952 to 1979 he was Associate Professor of East Asian culture and linguistics. Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences was Franke since 1958. With his main area of ​​work " history of China and its peripheral nations in Central Asia," he was 1964/1965 and 1969/1970 Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. From 1965 to 1971 he was the first chairman of the German Oriental Society from 1969 to 1972 and Vice President of the German Society for East Asian Studies. In the years 1974-1980 was Franke Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and 1980-1985 President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. From 1993 he was a foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.

Franke has received several awards, the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Bavarian Constitution Medal. The "Prix Stanislas Julien of the Académie des incriptions et Belles-Lettres " he received in 1953 for his inventory of Sinology after the Second World War.

Works (selection)

  • Money and economy in China under the Mongol rule. 1949
  • The golden chest. Chinese novellas of two millennia. 1959 ( with Wolfgang Bauer)
  • Fischer World History Volume 19 The Chinese Empire. ( with Rolf Trauzettel ). 1968
  • War and warriors in the Chinese Middle Ages ( 12th to 14th century ). 2003
  • As editor: Dictionary of Tibetan written language, delivery 1; Beck, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-7696-0934-4
  • From the Piano: A small guide for pianists, self- Verlag, Munich 1981
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