Donald Keene

Donald Lawrence Keene ( born June 6, 1922 in New York) is an American of Japanese studies.

Keene taught for almost 50 years at Columbia University and has published a number of works on Japanese literature, several of them in the Japanese language.

Biography

Donald Keene studied at Columbia University, from 1942, he received a B. A.. Japanese he learned, as he did military service in the United States Navy. He was employed as intelligence officer at the Pacific theater of war. After his release, he continued his studies, graduating in 1947 with a M. A.. He then spent a year studying at Harvard, followed by a year at Cambridge. After he had there acquired a second M. A., he worked there from 1949 to 1955 as a lecturer.

During this time, he entered a period of study at the Kyoto University and received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in 1951 from Columbia. Another doctorate (D. Litt. ) He acquired in 1978 in Cambridge. Over the years it except the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun ( 2nd class ) and the Japanese Order of Culture has been awarded a number of literary awards for his works; continue to:

Honorary doctorates

Over the years it following honorary degrees were conferred:

  • Kyoto - Sangyo University ( Kyoto, 2002)
  • Keiwa College ( Niigata, 2000)
  • Foreign Languages ​​University of Tokyo (Tokyo, 1999)
  • Waseda University (Tokyo, 1998)
  • Tohoku University ( Sendai, 1997)
  • Columbia University (New York, 1997)
  • Middlebury College (Vermont, 1995)
  • St. Andrews Presbyterian College (North Carolina, 1990)

After his appointment to his alma mater, where he taught about 50 years until his retirement, including as Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, he developed a lively publishing activity as a translator and editor. He has written in Japanese About 30 of his works.

In 1999 saw the founding of Keene Foundation, which he also projects and that has made it to task to uphold his memory and his works to secure further dissemination.

Works

  • Works by or about Donald Keene in the catalog that German national library
  • Autobiographical Essays " Chronicles of My Life in the 20th Century "

Most of his books have not been translated into German.

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