Christoph Baumer

Christoph Baumer ( born June 23, 1952 in Zurich ) is a Swiss cultural researcher. Since 1984 he leads research in traveling through Central Asia, China and Tibet. Their results, he has published in numerous books, publications and radio broadcasts.

Life

Baumer grew up as an only child in Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau, where the father worked as a merchant in the graphics industry. The mother had reported as a war reporter for the French radio from the Finnish-Russian Winter War 1939-1940. The Asia researcher Sven Hedin helped her in returning to occupied Belgium, the former home of the native French. From a young age Baumer was fascinated by the travel reports Hedin. After graduating at the high school Frauenfeld study of 1971-1977 at the University of Zurich in psychology, philosophy and art history holds a degree in 1981 doctorate at the University of Zurich. From 1981-1996 several positions in marketing, most recently as International Marketing Director for Northern Europe at RJReynolds Tobacco. Worked as a freelance writer since 1996. Activities focus on the cultural history of Asia. Christoph Baumer is a founding member and president of the Society for the Exploration of Eurasia.

Exploring the Taklamakan

1994 Baumer led the First International Taklamakan Expedition.

In 1998, the Second International Taklamakan Expedition, where he was the first visitor of the ancient ruined city Dandan Oilik in the Taklamakan Desert since Emil Trinkler and Walter Bosshard in 1928. Results of this expedition were, inter alia, the discovery and excavation of unknown ruins in Dandan Oilik and Buddhist wall paintings from the mid- 8th century AD, the discovery of a paper document from the 7/8 Century, respectively in Khotanesischer language. Brahmi script written, the discovery of an extremely rare stone inscription in Kharoshthi from the 3rd century AD. in the ruined city friendlier and the rediscovery of a Tibetan wall inscription of 790

In 2003, he led the Third International Taklamakan Expedition in collaboration with the Archaeological Institute, Urumqi, Xinjiang and London University, where he scored north of Qiemo finds from the Neolithic higher (4th - 3rd millennium BC).

In 2007, he led the Fourth International Taklamakan expedition into unexplored regions of the Lop Nor desert. There he discovered, inter alia, a previously unknown settlement from the period 100 BC - 400 AD

Other expeditions led Baumer 1996 after southern Tibet, where he unknown wall paintings from the early 12th century discovered the Serkar Guthok monastery and 1997 back to southern Tibet, where he in Pa - Lha- Puk monastery, the oldest surviving murals of the Bon religion throughout Tibet from the early 15th century discovered.

Publications

  • Ghost Towns of the Southern Silk Road. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 1996. ISBN 3-7630-2334-8
  • The Bon. The lively primordial religion of Tibet. Akad Print & Publishing Company Graz, 1999. ISBN 3-201-01723- X
  • The Southern Silk Road. Islands in the sea of ​​sand. Submerged cultures of the Taklamakan Desert. Publisher Philip of Saverne, Mainz 2002. ISBN 3-8053-2845-1
  • Eastern Tibet. Bridge between Tibet and China. Co -author Therese Weber. Akad Print & Publishing Company, Graz 2002. ISBN 3-201-01788-4
  • Early Christianity between the Euphrates and the Yangtze River. Urachhaus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2005. ISBN 3-8251-7450-6
  • Time travel to hidden cultures. Discoveries in Central Asia. Akad Print & Publishing Company, Graz 2008. ISBN 978-3-201-01903-3
  • Wutai Shan - center of Chinese Buddhism. Monasteries and pilgrims at the sacred mountain of China. Detjen -Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-937597-29-4
  • The " thousand - coffins Necropolis » Xiaohe: The rediscovery of an important Bronze Age grave field in the Lop Nor desert ( China) raises many new questions. In: Ancient World. 2006, issue 37, No. 6, pp. 39 - 49
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