Peter A. Boodberg
Peter A. Boodberg | |
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Пётр Алексеевич Будберг | |
history; Altaic languages | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable students | William Boltz, Richard Mather, Edward Schafer, Fr. Paul Serruys |
| Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Bǔ Bìdé |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Buu Bihder |
| Wade–Giles | Pu3 Pi4-te2 |
Peter Alexis Boodberg (born Pyotr Alekseyevich Budberg; 8 April 1903 – 29 June 1972) was a Russian-American scholar, linguist, and
Life and career
Peter Alexis Boodberg was born "Pyotr Alekseyevich Budberg" (
The Budberg family fled Russia in 1920 due to the anti-aristocracy violence of the
In 1932, Boodberg was hired to teach at Berkeley as an instructor in the Oriental Languages department. He was made an associate professor in 1937, Chairman of the department in 1940, and was promoted to full professor in 1948. Boodberg's scholarship won him Guggenheim Fellowships in 1938, 1956, and 1963. In 1963, Boodberg also became President of the American Oriental Society. He continued to teach until his death from a heart attack in 1972. Boodberg influenced several generations of sinologists, notably Edward H. Schafer, who wrote a long obituary article in the Journal of the American Oriental Society that was followed by a full bibliography by Alvin P. Cohen.
Boodberg's only child, Xenia Boodberg Lee (1927–2004), was a concert pianist based in the San Francisco Bay area.[4]
Selected works
Boodberg authored a large number of studies and manuscripts that he did not formally publish, instead simply circulating them primarily among his students and close colleagues. Additionally, he destroyed several manuscripts related to philology and Chinese frontier history in the years prior to his death.[5] The following are some of his better known published works.
- Boodberg, Peter A. (1930). "The Art of War in Ancient China: A Study Based Upon the Dialogues of Li, Duke of Wei". Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Berkeley).
- ——— (1936). "The Language of the T'o-ba Wei". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 1 (2): 167–85. JSTOR 2717850.
- ——— (1937). "Some Proleptical Remarks on the Evolution of Archaic Chinese". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 2 (3/4): 329–72. JSTOR 2717943.
- ——— (1938). "Marginalia to the Histories of the Northern Dynasties". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 3 (3/4): 223–53. JSTOR 2717838.
- ——— (1940). "'Ideography' or Iconolatry?". T'oung Pao. 35 (4): 266–88. .
- ——— (1943). Exercises in Chinese Parallelism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ———; Chen, Shih-Hsiang (1948). Twenty-five Chinese Quatrains, with Vocabulary Exercises. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ——— (1951). Introduction to Classical Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ——— (1957). "Philological Notes on Chapter One of the Lao-tzu". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 20 (3/4): 598–618. JSTOR 2718364.
- Cohen, Alvin P., ed. (1979). Selected Works of Peter A. Boodberg. Berkeley: University of California Press.
See also
References
- Footnotes
- JSTOR 823558.
- ^ a b c d e f Honey (2001), p. 288.
- ^ Schafer (1974), p. 1.
- ^ Bancroft Library, Russian emigré recollections: life in Russia and California : oral history transcript / 1979-1983 (University of California Libraries 1986): Vernon 27. via Internet Archive
- ^ Cohen (1974), p. 12.
- Works cited
- Cohen, Alvin P. (1974). "Bibliography of Peter A. Boodberg". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 94 (1): 8–13. JSTOR 599725.
- Honey, David B. (2001). Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology. American Oriental Series. Vol. 86. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society. ISBN 978-0-940490-16-1.
- Schafer, Edward H. (1974). "Peter A. Boodberg, 1903–1972". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 94 (1): 1–7. JSTOR 599725.
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