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Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies

Wolfgang Behr

Wolfgang Behr, Prof. Dr.

  • Professor of Chinese Studies with a focus on traditional China
  • Director Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Phone
+41 44 634 31 80
Room number
ZUB 4-412

***on academic leave until the end of 2022***



Short CV

Wolfgang Behr (born 1965 in Göttingen, FRG), read Sinology, Slavic Studies, Indo-European and Comparative Linguistics and Sociology in Frankfurt/Main, Shenyang, Changchun and Moscow. He receied his M.A. in 1991 with a thesis on Sanskrit-Chinese lexicography, his Ph.D. in 1997 with a dissertation on "Rhyming Bronze Inscriptions and the Origins of Chinese End-Rhyme Versificaton", and his Habilitation in 2008 on "Phonological and Morphological Studies in Early Chinese History of Thought and Culture". Between 1991–1997 he was Teaching and Research Assistant at J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, in 1998, Research Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Uppsala in 2005, and University Lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at Ruhr-University Bochum 1998–2008. Since September 2008 he is Professor at UZH. He held visting professorships in Hong Kong in 2014 (at Chinese University) and in 2017 (at The Jao Tsung-i Academy) and was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at Kyôto University in 2022. Between 2018 and 2022 he served as Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of UZH.

Research Interests

  • Old Chinese phonology, morphology, etymology & paleography
  • Sino-Tibetan linguistics; external contacts of Old and Middle Chinese
  • Premodern Chinese dialectology
  • History of Chinese philology; epistemological foundations of historical linguistics in China, conceptual and cultural history, Philosophy of language beyond Standard Average European
  • Pre-imperial Chinese archaeology & history; Early Chinese historiography
  • Sanskrit-Chinese translation & lexicography
  • Modern Chinese translation of Western experimental literature, translatability, puns, metrics
  • Grammatology of complex non-alphabetic writing-systems

Publications, Papers, Talks, Conferences

See for a periodically updated list http://uzh.academia.edu/WolfgangBehr/ or query for "Wolfgang Behr" on zenodo.org.

Recent Publications

  • (with R. Suter & L. Indraccolo, eds.): The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philo­sophical and Philological Perspectives [Welten Ost­asiens], Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 575 pp. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110587814/html
  • (with R. Sybesma, C.T.J. Huang, Z. Handel, J. Myers & Gu Yueguo, eds.):
    En­cyclopedia of Chinese Language and Lin­guistcs,Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2017,
    5 vols., 3454 pp.; also online @ http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopedia-of-chinese-language-and-linguistics.
  • (with Sun Jingtao, eds.) Papers from the Li Fang-Kuei Society Young Scholar's Symposium (2013), special double issue of Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 8.1 & 2 (2015), ca. 243 & 195 pp. https://brill.com/view/journals/bcl/8/1/bcl.8.issue-1.xml
  • (with R.H. Gassmann): Antikchinesisch. Ein Lehrbuch in drei Teilen [Antique Chinese: a textbook in three parts] (Schweizerische Asiengesell­schaft, Stu­dienhefte; 18/1-3), 3 Bde., Bern: P. Lang, 242+503+492 pp.; 3rd revised ed., Antikchinesisch ― Ein Lehrbuch in zwei Teilen [Antique Chinese: a text­book in two parts] (Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft, Stu­dienhefte; 19/1-3), Teil 1: Eine pro­pä­deu­tische Einführung in fünf Element(ar)gängen [A propaedeutic introduction in five element(ary) steps], Teil 2: Chrestomathie mit Glossaren und Grammatikno­tizen [Chrestomathy with Glossaries and Grammar Notes], 2 Bde., Bern: P. Lang, 2011, 242+505 pp. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/59556
  • (with R.H. Gassmann): Grammatik des Antikchinesischen – Begleitband zu Antikchinesisch – Ein Lehrbuch in zwei Teilen [A grammar of Antique Chinese; supplementary volume to Antique Chinese – a text­book in two parts] (Schweizer Asiatische Studien; 20), Bern: P. Lang, 2013, 523 pp. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/89130/
  • (with Licia di Giacinto, Ole Döring, Christine Moll-Murata, eds.) Auf Augenhöhe – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Heiner Roetz, special issue of Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, Mün­chen: iudicium, 2015, 502 pp. https://www.iudicium.de/katalog/86205-180.htm
  • (with L. Indraccolo, eds.) Masters of Disguise: Conceptions and Misconceptions of rhetoric in Early China, spe­cial issue of Asiatische Studien 68.4, 2014, pp. 889–1265. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/asia-2014-frontmatter4/html

Projects

Courses Currently Taught at the University of Zürich

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

V-Nr Course Start / End Date Lecturers Room
3216
279-601a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
3212
279-700a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
0251
280-020a
from 19 Sep 2023
to 21 Dec 2023
Tue 12:15-13:45, Thu 10:15-12:00 Wolfgang Behr
0875
280-104a
from 22 Sep 2023
to 22 Dec 2023
Fri 08:00-09:45 Wolfgang Behr
0876
280-106a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
2352
280-003a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
1372
280-401a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
to be announced Wolfgang Behr
3770
280-501a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
4271
280-590a
from 18 Sep 2023
to 18 Dec 2023
Mon 14:00-15:45 Wolfgang Behr
1624
280-592a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
4226
280-683a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
3595
280-803a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
4198
280-804a
from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
as announced or arranged Wolfgang Behr
3531
280j307a
from 22 Sep 2023
to 22 Dec 2023
Fri 10:15-11:00 Wolfgang Behr
1794
280j602a
from 19 Sep 2023
to 19 Dec 2023
Tue 10:15-12:00 Wolfgang Behr