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German-American sinologist (1845?1927)
Friedrich Hirth
Ph.D. (16 April 1845 in
Grafentonna
,
Saxe-Gotha
– 10 January 1927 in
Munich
) was a
German-American
sinologist
.
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Biography
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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 first Dean Lung Professorship of Chinese at
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
Krakow
.
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As an investigator he conducted researches in
Chinese literature
by imitation of the methods of classical
philology
.
Works
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- "The Hoppo-Book of 1753"
.
Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
.
17
: 221?235. 1882.
Translates and annotates a merchant log dealing with the Superintendent of Customs or "
Hoppo
".
- China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Mediœval Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records
(1885)
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[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 Einflusse 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)
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- 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)
- Research in China ...: Systematic geology, by Bailey Willis
(1907)
- The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chou Dynasty
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1908)
1911 edition
- CHAU JU-KUA: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by FRIEDRICH HIRTH and W. W. ROCKHILL
, (1911)
Archived
2017-04-05 at the
Wayback Machine
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)
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