Herbert Franke (27 September 1914 – 10 June 2011) was a German
historian of China. He is particularly known for his works on the history of the
Jurchen (Jin) and
Mongol (Yuan) empires in
China.
After the end of World War II, Herbert Franke, along with
Wolfgang Bauer, was instrumental in establishing the Sinological Section in the
University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
. Later, he succeeded
Erich Haenisch as the head of the Sinology Department at that university.
[Hsiao-yun Kleber-Chan]
Sinology in Germany
1998-11-11
He is one of the authors of volume 6 of ''
The Cambridge History of China
''The Cambridge History of China'' is a series of books published by the Cambridge University Press (CUP) covering the history of China from the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BC to 1982 AD. The series was conceived by British historian Den ...
'' dealing with the history of China under the
Khitan, Jurchen and Mongol regimes.
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Historians of China
20th-century German historians
1914 births
2011 deaths
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German sinologists
German male non-fiction writers
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