Hirth and wife in 1872

Friedrich Hirth Ph.D. (16 April 1845 in Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha – 10 January 1927 in Munich) was a German-American sinologist.

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 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 Kraków. As an investigator he conducted researches in Chinese literature by imitation of the methods of classical philology.

Works

  • . 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)
  • Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (two volumes, 1885–88)
  • Chinesische Studien, volume i (1890)
  • , 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)
  • The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chou Dynasty (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908)
  • 2017-04-05 at the Wayback Machine with W. W. Rockhill
  • The Story of Chang K'ie'n, China's Pioneer in Western Asia (1917)

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External links

Works by or about Friedrich Hirth at Wikisource