Hellmut Wilhelm

Hellmut Wilhelm ( born December 10, 1905 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, Imperial China, † July 5, 1990 in Seattle, Washington State, USA ) was a German sinologist.

Life

Hellmut Wilhelm was born as the son of the famous missionary and sinologist Richard Wilhelm ( 1873-1930 ).

During his exile in Beijing, he wrote a German - Chinese Dictionary, whose first edition appeared in 1945.

From 1948 to 1971 he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. An estate ( personal documents, photographs, manuscripts, including " Gu Ting Lin", "The Book of Changes" and Parerga; copies of his scientific work ) is located in the " German Exile Archive 1933-1945 " of the German National Library.

Works

  • China's history. Ten introductory lectures, Beijing 1942
  • " The Problem of Within and without, a Confucian Attempt in Syncretism ", Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 12, 1951, pp. 48-60
  • " I- Ching Oracle in the Tso -chuan and the Kuo -yu ", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 79, No. 4, 1959, pp. 275-280
  • Society and the state in China. On the history of a world empire, Hamburg ( 2) 1960.
  • Essay: To understand the work in Wu Cheng'en: " The rebellious monkey. The Journey to the West. A Chinese novel " Rowohlts classic, Reinbek 1961.
  • " The Image of Youth and Age in Chinese Communist Literature ", The China Quarterly, Volume 13, 1963, pp. 180-194
  • "The Reappraisal of Neo - Confucianism ," The China Quarterly, Volume 23, 1965, pp. 122-139
  • Sense of the I Ching, Dusseldorf and Others 1972
  • " Tseng Kuo-fan and Liu Ch ʿ uan -ying ," Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 96, No. 2, 1976, p 268-272
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