Erich Haenisch
(geb. 1880 in Berlin - gest. 1966 in Stuttgart)
After death August Conradys in June 1925, took over the line of the
East Asian seminar of the University of Leipzig on 1 October of the same
yearly Erich Haenisch. Of one its pupil, Siegfried Behrsing, is
characterized Haenisch as a "Prussian type of official", a shining
paedagogue and owing to a stay of several years in China (1904-1911) is
equipped with unusually good sprachkenntnissen. On Haenisch the
innovation decreases/goes back to entrust Chinese with instruction in
the modern Chinese and seminars to the newspaper reading.
1903 with a work over the Chinese editorship of the Sanang Setsen,
history of the east Mongols, in the comparison with Mongolian original
texts attained a doctorate, habilitierte itself Haenisch ten years
later with the Dutch Sinologen J. J. M. De Groot. Topic and title of its
Habilitationsschrift was the rebellion of the Wu San kuei in the Qing
time. Thus Haenisch was the first German Sinologe, which went through
the university training fully. Its first call received it 1920 as an
extraordinary professor for Chinese colonial languages (Mongolian and
Mandschurisch) to the University of Berlin, where it became to appoint
1932 after a seven-year-old stopover in Leipzig (1925-1932) as a
successor petrol Frankes to the vakanten chair for Sinologie. Haenischs
scientific work is certain according to the judgement Wolfgang Bauers
"by two lines of development: on the one hand the philological and
historical study of the Mongol and mandschuzeitlichen China, on the
other hand the clarification of the role of the Konfuzianismus in
Chinese history." Haenisch attained world-wide fame by its innovative
work to the secret history of the Mongols . it submitted 1937
from the Chinese Transkription reconstructed Mongolian wording of the
text.
Haenischs interest in the fate of the Konfuzianismus in China
resulted completely substantially from the experiences, which he made as
a direct witness of the fall of the konfuzianischen empire. The
conflicts, which through-suffered many konfuzianische officials in that
time of the circulation, inspired Haenisch to work like the revenge
obligation, a conflict between konfuzianischer ethics and Chinese state
feeling (1931 ), sanctifying the father and prince name in China
(1932) and the loyalty term in the konfuzianischen ethics
(1933). Also Haenischs most well-known work, the training course of
the Chinese writing language (Bde. 1-3, 1. Aufl. 1929/33. Bd. it
resulted to 4 1957) nevertheless consciously on school books of the
beginning 20 from the occupation of the author with the Konfuzianismus,
was based. Century, which had the revival of the traditional teachings
as a goal. How inseparably science and own lebensfuehrung were linked
with one another in the person Haenischs, work proved like the honour
inscription for the rebel general Ts'ui Lih in the light to
konfuzianischer moral (1944), in which the criticism at the moral
purge under the Nazi dictatorship comes clearly to the expression.
, Haenisch at the University of Munich spent the last years of its
career, from 1946 to 1952, where he developed a new seminar.
Literature to Erich Haenisch:
- Farmer, Wolfgang. "Erich Haenisch (1880-1966)". In: Magazine of
the German Morgenlaendi society 117:2 (1967), P. 205-210. (a listing
contains Haenischs of the works appeared after 1960)
- Franke, Herbert (Hrsg.). Studia Sino Altaica. Anniversary
publication for Erich Haenisch to 80. Birthday . Wiesbaden:
Steiner, 1961. (in it a listing of the writings Haenischs until
1960)
