Wolfram Eberhard

Wolfram Eberhard ( born March 17, 1909 in Potsdam, † August 15, 1989 ) was a German sinologist and ethnologist.

Life

Eberhard came from a family of astronomers and astrophysicists. His parents were Gustav Eberhard and Gertrude, née Müller. He studied from 1927 Sinology, Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Berlin and at the same time secretly attended courses on modern Chinese at the Department of Oriental Languages ​​, as his professors this interest not approved at the Berlin University.

Eberhard graduated from in 1929 and received his PhD in 1933 in Sinology. 1934 married Eberhard Alide Romans and settled with her over to China, where he held teaching positions in German and Latin.

In 1936, Eberhard curator for the Asia Section at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, but emigrated to escape the Nazis and in 1937 became a teacher of Chinese at the University of Ankara, a position he held for eleven years. He was significantly involved in the development of Turkish Chinese Studies.

The National Socialist and sinologist Fritz hunters spread by official letter dated 11 June 1943 as expert as follows on WE:

In 1948 he accepted an appointment to a chair in the United States and taught there until 1976 at the University of Berkeley.

Later Eberhard visiting professorships at the Universities of perceived Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin and has authored numerous articles and books on Chinese cultural history.

His most famous work is the dictionary of Chinese symbols, which was still reprinted. His writings on the Chinese folk tale drew the interest of the layers formed on this aspect of Chinese culture.

Trivia

Wolfram Eberhard continued his lectures at the University of Berkeley at five clock on, in the hope that no students appeared so early hour.

Works

• Contributions to cosmological speculation of the Chinese of the Han period. Augustin, Gluckstadt 1933.
• Encyclopedia of Chinese symbols. The imagery of the Chinese. Diederichs Yellow Series. Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen 2004, ISBN 3-89631-428-9.
• Wolfram Eberhard & Alide: China's history from its beginnings to the present. Kröner, Stuttgart 1971, 3rd extended. Edition 1980, ISBN 3-520-41303-5.
• Wolfram Eberhard & med Naili Boratav: Types of Turkish folk tales. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1953.
• Chinese folk tales. Island, Frankfurt 1951.
• Li Yu: The perfect woman. The Chinese ideal of beauty. Libra, Zurich 1963.
• Guilt and Sin in Traditional China. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1967.
• About the thoughts and feelings of the Chinese people: Eleventh Werner Heisenberg lecture, held in München- Nymphenburg on 21 January 1982, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich 1984..