
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
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***on academic leave until the end of 2022***
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.
See for a periodically updated list http://uzh.academia.edu/WolfgangBehr/ or query for "Wolfgang Behr" on zenodo.org.
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Potential Ph.D. students kindly contact me with a project outline, a detailed CV and a transcript of records of your M.A.
V-Nr | Course | Start / End | Date | Lecturers | Room |
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3216 |
279-601a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
3212 |
279-700a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
0251 |
280-020a
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from 19 Sep 2023
to 21 Dec 2023
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Tue 12:15-13:45, Thu 10:15-12:00 | Wolfgang Behr | |
0875 |
280-104a
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from 22 Sep 2023
to 22 Dec 2023
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Fri 08:00-09:45 | Wolfgang Behr | |
0876 |
280-106a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
2352 |
280-003a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
1372 |
280-401a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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to be announced | Wolfgang Behr | |
3770 |
280-501a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
4271 |
280-590a
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from 18 Sep 2023
to 18 Dec 2023
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Mon 14:00-15:45 | Wolfgang Behr | |
1624 |
280-592a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
4226 |
280-683a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
3595 |
280-803a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
4198 |
280-804a
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from 1 Aug 2023
to 31 Jan 2024
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as announced or arranged | Wolfgang Behr | |
3531 |
280j307a
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from 22 Sep 2023
to 22 Dec 2023
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Fri 10:15-11:00 | Wolfgang Behr | |
1794 |
280j602a
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from 19 Sep 2023
to 19 Dec 2023
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Tue 10:15-12:00 | Wolfgang Behr |