Friedrich Hirth

Hirth and wife in 1872

Friedrich HirthPh.D. (16 April 1845 inGräfentonna,Saxe-Gotha– 10 January 1927 inMunich) was aGerman-Americansinologist.

Biography

He was educated at the universities ofLeipzig,Berlin,andGreifswald(Ph.D., 1869). He was in theChinese Maritime Customs Servicefrom 1870 to 1897. In 1902, Professor Hirth was appointed to the first Dean Lung Professorship of Chinese atColumbia University(New York City).

Prior to World War II, a collection of Chinese manuscripts and printed books made by him was in theRoyal Library at Berlin,and another ofporcelainsof considerable historical importance in theGotha Museum;most of the Hirth collection from theStaatsbibliothekin Berlin is now inKraków.As an investigator he conducted researches inChinese literatureby imitation of the methods of classicalphilology.

Works

• "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)[1][2][3][4]
• Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade(1888)
• Text-Book of Documentary Chinese(two volumes, 1885–88)
  • Hsin-kuan wên-chien-lu: text book of documentary Chinese, with a vocabulary for the special use of the Chinese customs service(1885)
  • Tân quan văn kiện lục(1909)
• 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 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-chï, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by FRIEDRICH HIRTH and W. W. ROCKHILL,(1911)Archived2017-04-05 at theWayback Machinewith 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

• Zhao Rugua

References

• Gilman, D. C.;Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905)."Hirth, Friedrich".New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

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