# Friedrich Hirth > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Friedrich_Hirth > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Friedrich_Hirth.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hirth > Source revision: 1302675349 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) German-American sinologist (1845–1927) Hirth and wife in 1872 **Friedrich Hirth** Ph.D. (16 April 1845 in [Gräfentonna](/source/Tonna%2C_Germany), [Saxe-Gotha](/source/Saxe-Gotha) – 10 January 1927 in [Munich](/source/Munich)) was a [German-American](/source/German-American) [sinologist](/source/Sinology).[1] ## Biography He was educated at the universities of [Leipzig](/source/University_of_Leipzig), [Berlin](/source/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin), and [Greifswald](/source/University_of_Greifswald) (Ph.D., 1869). He was in the [Chinese Maritime Customs Service](/source/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](/source/Columbia_University) ([New York City](/source/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](/source/Berlin_State_Library), and another of [porcelains](/source/Porcelain) of considerable historical importance in the [Gotha Museum](/source/Gotha_(town)#Sights); most of the Hirth collection from the [Staatsbibliothek](/source/Staatsbibliothek) in Berlin is now in [Kraków](/source/Krak%C3%B3w).[2] As an investigator he conducted researches in [Chinese literature](/source/Chinese_literature) by imitation of the methods of classical [philology](/source/Philology). ## Works - ["The Hoppo-Book of 1753"](https://books.google.com/books?id=QY8Y4Dr5uOsC&q=The+Hoppo+Book+of+1753,&pg=PA221). *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](/source/Hoppo)". - *China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Mediœval Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records* (1885)[\[1\]](https://archive.org/stream/chinaandromanor01hirtgoog#page/n10/mode/2up) [\[2\]](http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/romchin1.asp) [\[3\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=dk4uAAAAYAAJ&q=important+southern+ports+pearls+round+otherwise+tortoise+shells+fruits+textiles+important+pearl+fishery)[\[4\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=dk4uAAAAYAAJ&q=using+this+route+first+appears+old+history+from+record+seems+road+considered+ancient+gate+pass+jiu+tangshu) - [*Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade* (1888)](https://books.google.com/books?id=liLWAAAAMAAJ) - *Text-Book of Documentary Chinese* (two volumes, 1885–88) - [*Hsin-kuan wên-chien-lu: text book of documentary Chinese, with a vocabulary for the special use of the Chinese customs service* (1885)](https://books.google.com/books?id=EVJKAAAAYAAJ) - [*新關文件錄* (1909)](https://books.google.com/books?id=sJQbAAAAMAAJ) - [*Notes on the Chinese documentary style* (1888)](https://books.google.com/books?id=q4IUAAAAIAAJ) - [*Notes on the Chinese documentary style* (1888)](https://books.google.com/books?id=a6xDAAAAIAAJ) - *Chinesische Studien*, volume i (1890) - [*Index of the Characters in Dr. Hirth's "Text Book of Documentary Chinese," Arranged by Their Radicals: With a List Giving Their Tones* (1892)](https://books.google.com/books?id=NgAxAQAAMAAJ) - [*Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst* (1896)](https://books.google.com/books?id=DdBJAAAAMAAJ) - [*Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians* (1905)](https://books.google.com/books?id=3zEYAAAAYAAJ) [\[5\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=KnAuAAAAYAAJ) - [*Syllabary of Chinese sounds* (1907)](https://books.google.com/books?id=UhETAAAAYAAJ) - [*Research in China ...: pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology*](https://books.google.com/books?id=RvpYAAAAYAAJ), by Bailey Willis, [Eliot Blackwelder](/source/Eliot_Blackwelder), and R.H. Sargent. pt. 2. *Petrography and zoology*, by Eliot Blackwelder. *Syllabary of Chinese sounds, by Friedrich Hirth* (1907) - [*Chinese metallic mirrors: with notes on some ancient specimens of the Musée Guimet, Paris* (1907)](https://books.google.com/books?id=lndZAAAAYAAJ) - [*Research in China ...: pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology, 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)](https://books.google.com/books?id=GIwJAQAAIAAJ) - [*Research in China ...: Systematic geology, by Bailey Willis* (1907)](https://books.google.com/books?id=b70NAAAAYAAJ) - *The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chou Dynasty* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908) [1911 edition](https://books.google.com/books?id=A-bUAAAAMAAJ) - [*CHAU JU-KUA: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chï, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by FRIEDRICH HIRTH and W. W. ROCKHILL*, (1911)](http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/reada/chau-ju-kua.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170405170438/http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/reada/chau-ju-kua.pdf) 2017-04-05 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) with W. W. Rockhill - [*Research in China ...* (1913)](https://books.google.com/books?id=oPtYAAAAYAAJ) - *The Story of Chang K'ie'n, China's Pioneer in Western Asia* (1917) - [*Native sources for the history of Chinese pictorial art* (1917)](https://books.google.com/books?id=2TMMAAAAYAAJ) ## See also - [Zhao Rugua](/source/Zhao_Rugua) ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1910). ["HIRTH, Friedrich"](https://books.google.com/books?id=4EQOO9S5cSUC&pg=PA916). *Who's Who in America*. Vol. 6. p. 916. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Archived copy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110721015752/http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/bbbvz/bbdu1.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/bbbvz/bbdu1.html) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-06-03.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title)) ## References - [Gilman, D. C.](/source/Daniel_Coit_Gilman); Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). ["Hirth, Friedrich"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Hirth,_Friedrich). *[New International Encyclopedia](/source/New_International_Encyclopedia)* (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. ## External links Works by or about [Friedrich Hirth](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Friedrich_Hirth) at [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States France BnF data Japan Italy Czech Republic Netherlands Poland Vatican Israel Academics CiNii 2 People Trove Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef Open Library SNAC Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Friedrich Hirth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hirth) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hirth?action=history)). 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