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Bernhard Karlgren : portrait of a scholar / N.G.D. Malmqvist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malmqvist, N. G. D. (Nils Göran David), 1924-
- Standardized Title:
- Bernhard Karlgren. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese philologists--Sweden--Biography.
- Chinese philologists.
- Karlgren, Bernhard, 1889-1978.
- Karlgren, Bernhard.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem, Pa. : Lehigh University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author draws a portrait of his teacher Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), whose research in a variety of fields laid the foundations of Modern Sinology. The work deals with Karlgren's childhood, school years, university studies at Uppsala and St. Petersburg, adventurous sojourn in China, studies in Paris, and academic career at Uppsala and Gothenburg University. This book will help the reader gain insight into the man behind the stern scholar.
- Contents:
- Childhood and schooldays in Jönköping, 1889-1907
- Liber studiosus, 1907-1909
- The great adventure, 1910-1911
- The irresolute strategist, 1912-1914
- The diligent correspondent
- The scholarly breakthrough
- The Gothenburg years, 1918-1939
- Proximitatem linguae longinquae manifestam fecit
- The legendary master
- Bernhard Karlgren, professor emeritus, 1959-1978.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-61146-580-X
- 1-283-23387-8
- 9786613233875
- 1-61146-001-8
- OCLC:
- 747410582
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