Werner Burger (Chinese name: 布威纳 Bu Weina; 1936 – 15 November 2021) was a German
numismatist specialising in Chinese coins of the
Qing dynasty
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(1644–1911). He wrote the first PhD on Chinese numismatics.
Life
Burger was born in
Munich
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,
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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, in 1936. He studied
Chinese
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at
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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(LMU), graduating in 1962. He went to China in 1963 to teach
German
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in
Shanghai. When the school he was teaching at closed down, he was sent to be a sheep farmer. He then moved to
Hong Kong to research Chinese numismatics. He died in
Hong Kong on 15 November 2021.
Publications
* “Manchu Inscriptions on Chinese Cash Coins”, in ''The American Numismatic Society Museum Notes'' XI (1964)
* “Um Amuleto em Manchu”, in ''Boletim do Instituto Luís de Camões'' (1969)
* “Minting during the Qianlong Period: Comparing the Actual Coins with the Mint Reports”, in Christine Moll-Murata, Song Jianze and Hans Ulrich Vogel (eds.), ''Chinese Handicraft Regulations of the Qing Dynasty'' (2005)
* Chinese section of ''Coins of the World 1750-1850'', by W.D. Craig (1976)
* ''Ch’ing cash until 1735'', Mei Ya Publications, Taipei, 1976
* ''Ch’ing Cash'', University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2016.
References
1936 births
2021 deaths
Chinese numismatics
German numismatists
People from Munich
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