Rolf Stein

Rolf Alfred Stein ( born June 13, 1911 in Schwetz; † 9 October 1999, Paris ) was a major Tibetologist and sinologist.

Life

Rolf Alfred Stein studied Chinese at the Department of Oriental Languages ​​in Berlin, where in 1933 he received his diploma. After he had taken refuge in the same year before the Nazis to France, he studied at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and also made ​​there in 1934 a further diploma in Chinese and one in 1936 in Japanese. With Jacques Bacot and Marcelle Lalou he studied Tibetan. In 1939 he became a French citizen. During the Second World War he worked as a translator in French Indochina, where he was taken into Japanese captivity.

From 1951 to 1975, Rolf Alfred Stein Professor at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1969 he completed his doctoral thesis ( Doctorat d' Etat ) from about the Gesar epic. From 1966 to 1982 he was also Professor at the Collège de France.

Among his most famous students include Anne -Marie Blondeau, Ariane Macdonald- Spain, Samten Karmay, Yamaguchi Zuiho and Yoshiro Imaeda.

Works

• The culture of Tibet. Ed. Weber, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3929660059