Friedrich Hirth

Friedrich Hirth ( born April 16, 1845 in Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha; † January 10, 1927 in Munich) was a German -American sinologist and historian.

Life

He studied in Leipzig, Berlin, and Greifswald ( Diss 1869). From 1870 to 1897 he was employed by the Chinese Seezolls. In 1902 he was appointed to the newly established Chair of Chinese at Columbia University (New York City).

The majority of the collection Hirth the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage is located in Krakow.

Writings

  • China and the Roman Orient: Researches into Their Ancient and Medieval Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records. In 1885.
  • Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Medioeval Industry and Trade. , 1888.
  • Text -Book of Documentary Chinese. 2 vols. From 1885 to 1888.
  • Chinese Studies. Volume 1, 1890.
  • The countries of Islam according to Chinese sources. In 1895.
  • About foreign influence in Chinese art. In 1896.
  • China in the sign of progress. Offprint from: German monthly magazine for the entire life of the present. Duncker, Berlin 1902, pp. 511-535.
  • Chinese views on bronze drums. ( MSOS. I, 7 ). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1904.
  • 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. In 1905.
  • Syllabary of Chinese sounds. In 1907.
  • The Ancient History of China., 1908.
  • Mr. Kingsmill and the Hsiung -nu. Offprint from: JAOS. 30, 1 Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1910, pp. 32-45.
  • William Woodville Rockhill: Chau Ju - kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab trade in the 12th and 13th centuries, Entitled Chu -fan- chi. First published: St. Petersburg in 1911; Reprint: Ch'eng -wen Publishing, Taipei, 1967 reprint. 1977.
  • The Story of Chang K'ien, China 's Pioneer in Western Asia: Text and Translation of Chapter 123 of Ssi - Ma Ts'ien 's Shi -Ki. , 1917.
  • Native Sources for the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, 1917.
  • The Ancient History of China. To the End of the Chou Dynasty. In 1923.
  • About a Chinese conversational lexicon. In: Zs f booklovers. 9
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