Max von Brandt

Maximilian August Scipio von Brandt ( born October 8, 1835 in Berlin, † August 24, 1920 in Weimar ) was a German diplomat, East expert and journalist.

Life and work

Max von Brandt was the son of a Prussian general and military writer Heinrich von Brandt, was baptized as a Protestant and attended the French Gymnasium in Berlin. He was first a Prussian officer. 1860/61 he took part in as an attache of the Prussian expedition of Count Eulenburg to East Asia, which led to the signing of a Japanese - Prussian commercial treaty on 24 January 1861. He was afterwards Consul, later Consul General of the North German Confederation and German since 1872, Minister Resident in Japan. 1875 to 1893 he was an imperial envoy to China. 1882/83 he completed a trade and friendship agreement with Korea. To gain a better understanding of the East Asian world, he studied in depth the culture and history of East Asia on site. Due to its great knowledge, his imposing personality and his easy manner, he enjoyed in the Beijing company high reputation. In Beijing, he was for many years the doyen of the diplomatic corps.

As a diplomat, he stressed the commonality of European interests against China. He encouraged German commercial interests and was one of the initiators of the opening of the German mail steamer line to China as well as the founding of the German - Asiatic Bank in February 1889 in Shanghai.

His highly acclaimed essays and books about East Asia were among the best ethnographic descriptions that were in his time available. His first wife, a native Wolff, died 1891 He married on 15 April 1893 in Seoul, the young Miss Helen Maxima Laura Heard (born 1868 in Hong Kong, † 1937) -. Called, Bébé 'or' Max ' - the daughter of the U.S. minister resident and consul-general in Korea, Augustine Heard (* 1827, † 1905), came in 1893 to retire and lived recently in Weimar, Cranachstraße 35 from his second marriage the daughter Elizabeth emerged. Max von Brandt was also a collector of East Asian art. From China, he supplied a museum in Berlin with East Asian art objects.

Works

  • Spoken and written language of the Chinese, Wroclaw, o.J. (ca. 1883) (41 pages).
  • From the land of the braid - an ancient Chinese chats, Leipzig 1884 (132 pages), 2nd Ed 1898 ( 195 pages).
  • Sion Pictures of China - Girls and Women - A contribution to the knowledge of the Chinese people, Stuttgart 1895 (87 pages), 2nd edition 1900.
  • The future of East Asia - A contribution to the history and understanding of the East Asian question, Stuttgart 1895 ( 80 pages), 2nd edition 1903.
  • Three years 1894-97 East Asian politics, Stuttgart 1897 (263 pages).
  • East Asian issues - China, Japan, Korea - old and new, Berlin 1897 (359 pages).
  • Colonies and naval question ( lecture ), Berlin 1897 (23 pages).
  • The political and commerzielle development of East Asia during the recent period ( lecture ), Leipzig 1898 ( 24 pages).
  • The Chinese philosophy and the State - Confucianism, Stuttgart 1898 (121 pages).
  • China and its trade relations with foreign countries with special emphasis on German ( = headings of the Central office for preparation of commercial contracts 5 ), Berlin 1899.
  • Industrial and railway enterprises in China ( = negotiations the German Colonial Society 3/4), Berlin 1899.
  • Current Affairs - the crisis in South Africa - China - Commerzielles and Political - Colonial Questions, Berlin 1900 (394 pages).
  • 33 years in East Asia - Memories of a German diplomat, Leipzig 1901 ( 319 pages).
  • Strange Fruits - Sienkiewicz / Hearn / Kipling / Gorki, Stuttgart 1904.
  • The English colonial policy and colonial administration, Halle a S. 1906.
  • George Bogle and Thomas Manning, From the land of the living Buddha. The stories of George Bogle 's mission to Tibet and Thomas Manning's trip to Lhasa (1774 and 1812). Translated from the English of Mr. Clements R. Markham. Translated and edited by Real power. Go. Council, Max von Brandt. Hamburg 1909.
  • The Chinese in the public and the family - how he sees himself and portrays - In 82 drawings by Chinese originals, Berlin, about 1910.
  • China, Japan and Korea in: World History ( Hans Ferdinand Helmolt ed) Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Wien 1913, Volume I.
  • China and Japan now and later, Leipzig 1914.
  • Japan. Memoirs of a German diplomat, Hamburg, Berlin, 1912 ( digitized in the Berlin State Library )
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