Gustav Haloun

Gustav Haloun ( born January 12, 1898 in Pirnitz, Margraviate of Moravia, Austria - Hungary, † December 24, 1951 in Cambridge ) was a sinologist.

Life

The son of Forestry Council attended from 1908 to 1916, the State Upper Gymnasium in Jihlava. As of May 1916, he served in the common army. After the war he studied Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Ethnology, Prehistory, Ancient History, History of the Middle East and Religious Studies at the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig. In Vienna he learned Chinese at Arthur rust Horn, in Leipzig was his most important teacher was the sinologist August Conrady. Haloun doctorate on August 2, 1923 in Leipzig. He habilitated in 1926 at the German University of Prague and taught there until 1927 as a lecturer. From 1928 to 1931 he was a lecturer of Chinese Studies at the University of Halle. As of November 1931, he was head of the Sinology Department of the University of Göttingen, where he was appointed in March 1934, non-tenured associate professor. He represented the Chinese Studies Chairs in Bonn (SS 31 and SS 36) and Berlin (SS 36). As he sat down against the Nazi regime to defend, he went in November 1938 at the University of Cambridge, where he took over as the successor of Arthur Christopher Moule the Department of Chinese language and history.