Friedrich Hirth
Friedrich Hirth, Ph.D. (16 April 1845 Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha - 10 January 1927 Munich) was a German-American sinologist.[1]
Biography
He was educated at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Greifswald (Ph.D., 1869). He was in the Chinese maritime customs service from 1870 to 1897. In 1902, Professor Hirth was appointed to the professorship of Chinese in Columbia University (New York City).
Prior to World War II, a collection of Chinese manuscripts and printed books made by him was in the Royal Library at Berlin, and another of porcelains of considerable historical importance in the Gotha Museum; most of the Hirth collection from the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin is now in Kraków.[2] As an investigator he conducted researches in Chinese literature by imitation of the methods of classical philology.
Works
His chief publications include:
- China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Mediœval Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records (1885)[1] [2] [3][4]
- Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade (1888)
- Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (two volumes, 1885–88)
- Notes on the Chinese documentary style (1888)
- Notes on the Chinese documentary style (1888)
- Chinesische Studien, volume i (1890)
- Index of the Characters in Dr. Hirth's "Text Book of Documentary Chinese," Arranged by Their Radicals: With a List Giving Their Tones (1892)
- Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst (1896)
- Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians (1905) [5]
- Syllabary of Chinese sounds (1907)
- Research in China ...: pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology, by Bailey Willis, Eliot Blackwelder, and R.H. Sargent. pt. 2. Petrography and zoology, by Eliot Blackwelder. Syllabary of Chinese sounds, by Friedrich Hirth (1907)
- Chinese metallic mirrors: with notes on some ancient specimens of the Musée Guimet, Paris (1907)
- Research in China ...: pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology, by Bailey Willis, Eliot Blackwelder, and R.H. Sargent. pt. 2. Petrography and zoology, by Eliot Blackwelder. Syllabary of Chinese sounds, by Friedrich Hirth (1907)
- Research in China ...: Systematic geology, by Bailey Willis (1907)
- The Ancient History of China (1908) 1911 edition
- CHAU JU-KUA: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chï, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by FRIEDRICH HIRTH and W. W. ROCKHILL, (1911) with W. W. Rockhill
- Research in China ... (1913)
- The Story of Chang K'ie'n, China's Pioneer in Western Asia (1917)
- Native sources for the history of Chinese pictorial art (1917)
See also
Notes
- ^ "HIRTH, Friedrich". Who's Who in America. Vol. 6. 1910. p. 916.
- ^ http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/bbbvz/bbdu1.html
References
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
Works by or about Friedrich Hirth at Wikisource
