Jacques Gernet

Jacques Gernet ( born December 22, 1921 in Algiers ) is a French sinologist.

Life

1942 acquired a license Gernet de lettres Classiques (classical philology ) in Algiers. His studies were interrupted by the war, from 1942 to 1945 he was a soldier. In 1947 he was awarded a diploma for Chinese at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and 1948 at the École pratique des hautes études ( EPHE ). He was a member of the École française d' Extrême -Orient before he became a researcher at CNRS and a scholarship from the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.

From 1955 to 1976 he worked as a researcher ( directeur d' études ) at the EPHE, VI. Section, from which emerged the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In 1956 he received his doctorate. He taught in parallel since 1957 at the Faculté des lettres of the Sorbonne, first as maître de conférences ( Lecturer ), since 1959 as a professor. In 1968 he founded the Unité d' enseignement et de recherche des Langues et civilizations de l' Asie orientale ( University of Paris VII), which he directed until 1973.

Finally, he was elected to the Collège de France. From 1975 to 1992 he was Chair of the social and intellectual history of China.

On 8 June 1979 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. In the same year his great history of China, the Chinese world first appeared in German. Gernets writings have been translated into numerous languages.

Gernet is a member of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

During the Algerian War Gernet 1960 was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 121, which called the French soldiers for objection.

Writings

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