August Conrady

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August Conrady (Chi. 孔好古) (28 April 1864,

University of Leipzig
.

Conrady first studied classical philology,

Tibetan and Chinese language. He put forward his research findings in 1896 on the relationship between the prefix and tones in the Sino-Tibetan languages
, in the work Eine Indo-Chinesische causative-Denominativ-Bildung und ihr Zusammenhang mit den Tonaccenten (1896).

He worked with

Loulan in 1901. Conrady purchased a part of the castle Mildenburg in Miltenberg, Bavaria, when it was auctioned off after the death of his uncle, Wilhelm Conrady [de] to exhibit his art collection.[1]
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He became extraordinary professor of sinology in Leipzig in 1896, that had among its students as future sinologist leaders

Austric and Sino-Tibetan languages. He became a full professor of Sinology in 1920. Materials from the Danish orientalist
Kurt Wulff concluded partially in Conrady's development of the theory, and Wulff continued Conrady's work in this field.

Works (selected)

References

  • Johannes Hertel: «Nekrolog auf August Conrady», i: Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-historische Klasse, v 77 #4 (1926) 7-14
  • Bruno Schindler: Der Wissenschaftliche Nachlass August Conradys. AM 3 (1926) 104-115
  • Eduard Erkes: «Georg von der Gabelentz und August Conrady», i: Ernst Engelberg (red.): Beiträge zu Universitätsgeschichte 1405-1959, Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig v1 (1959) 439-463
  • David B Honey: Incense at the Altar. AOS 2001, 132f
  • Christina Leibfried: «Sinologie an der Universität Leipzig: Entstehung und Wirken des Ostasiatischen Seminars 1878 bis 1947», i: Beiträge zur Leipziger Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ser B v1 (2003)

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