Hellmut Wilhelm (1905-1990) was a German sinologist. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Sinology in general use is the study of China and things related to China but especially in the American academic context refers more strictly to the study of classical language
Biography
Hellmut Wilhelm was born in 1905 in the city of Qingdao, located in the province of Shandong in what is now the People's Republic of China. ( is a coastal province of eastern People's Republic of China. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES He was the son of the prominent missionary and sinologist Richard Wilhelm. Richard Wilhelm ( May 10, 1873, Tübingen, Germany - March 2 1930, Stuttgart, Germany was a German translator
During his exile in Beijing, Wilhelm wrote a Chinese-German dictionary, the first edition of which appeared in 1945.
From 1948 to 1971, he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University A collection that includes documents relating to his life, photographs, and manuscripts of his scientific work on Gu Ting Lin, the I Ching, and Parerga can be found in the "German Exiles Archive" of the German National Library. The I Ching ( Wade-Giles) or “Yì Jīng” ( Pinyin) also called “Classic of Changes” or “Book of Changes” is one of the oldest of the The German National Library ( Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, abbreviated DNB) was established in 1990 during the German reunification by merging the Deutsche
References
External links
- (German) Hellmut Wilhelm in the German National Library catalogue
- (German) Biografie
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