Max Kaltenmark (11 November 1910 – 26 June 2002) was a French
sinologist, of Austrian origin.
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''Encyclopædia universalis
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Between 1949 and 1953, he was director of the "Centre d'études sinologiques de Pékin" of the
École française d'Extrême-Orient
The French School of the Far East (french: École française d'Extrême-Orient, ), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in w ...
.
[ He later was directeur d'études at the ]École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...
in Paris until 1979.[
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Selected works
*1953: ''Le Lie-Sien Tchouan : biographies légendaires des immortels taoïstes de l'antiquité''
*1965: ''Lao Tseu et le taoïsme''
*1972: ''La Philosophie chinoise'' (Que sais-je?
"Que sais-je?" (QSJ) (; Literally: "What do I know?", ) is an editorial collection published by the Presses universitaires de France (PUF). The aim of the series is to provide the lay reader with an accessible introduction to a field of study wr ...
).
References
External links
Maxime Kaltenmark (1910-2002)
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Persée
''Notes à propos du Kao-Mei''
on ISIDORE
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1910 births
Writers from Vienna
2002 deaths
French sinologists
Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
Austrian emigrants to France