Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Chinese: 施寒微; pinyin: Shī Hánwēi; born 24 June 1948) is a German sinologist who served as director of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel between 1993 and 2015.[1][2] Since 2016 he has been director of China Centrum Tübingen (CCT).

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer in September 2007.
Born (1948-06-24) June 24, 1948
Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, Germany
OccupationSinologist
LanguageGerman, Chinese
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Biography

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer was born in 1948 as the first son of the general practitioner Hansgeorg Schmidt-Glintzer and his wife Erika Budgenhagen.[3] In 1967 he graduated from the old-style grammar school "Old Monastery School". He studied sinology, philosophy, ethnology, sociology and political science at the University of Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 1973, he earned his doctor's degree under Wolfgang Bauer.

In 1973, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer held an overseas scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in Hsinchu, Taiwan at the Chinese Language Institute and a research fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei. He then spent approximately half a year as a research student at the Institute for Humanistic Studies (Jimbun kagaku kenyûshô) in Kyoto, Japan. In 1979 he habilitated for the subject sinology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. In 1981 he was appointed full professor of East Asian Cultural and Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. At the end of October 1985 he participated as a special guest in the government delegation of the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in Beijing and Guangzhou.

In 1993, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Göttingen for East Asian Literature and Cultural Studies and the associated assumption of the post of director of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. His designated successor is Peter Burschel. Since April 2016 he is senior professor and Director of China Centrum Tübingen (CCT).[4]

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer is a full member of the Humanities Class of the Brunswick Scientific Society since 1999, a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature since 2002 and a corresponding member of the Philological-Historical Class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2004.

References
  1. 国外汉学家：一人一段中国缘 看不惯中文夹洋文. Chinanews (in Chinese). 2007-04-06.
  2. 德国法兰克福孔子学院：“孔子遇见森根堡”(组图). chinaqw.com (in Chinese). 2018-04-14.
  3. 世界汉学大会2007国内学者介绍：施寒微. sina (in Chinese). 2007-03-22.
  4. 德国汉学家：两会更关注中国民众权益保障. Sohu (in Chinese). 2015-03-04.
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