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German-American sinologist
A.K.A.
Ferdinand Diederich Lessing
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
26 February 1882(Altenessen, Essen, Germany)
Death:
31 December 1961(Berkeley, Alameda County, California, United States)
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany
University of california, berkeley
Berkeley, Alameda County, United States
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Biography
Introduction
Ferdinand Diedrich Lessing, né le à Altenessen (quartier de Essen) en Allemagne, mort le à Berkeley en Californie, aux États-Unis, est un sinologue et mongoliste allemand, naturalisé américain. Il est également spécialiste du lamaïsme.
Il est notamment l'auteur d'un dictionnaire mongol-anglais.
Biographie
De 1930 à 1933, il participe à l'expédition sino-suédoise, sous la direction de Sven Anders von Hedin.
Œuvres
- (en) Ferdinand Diederich Lessing, Sven Anders Hedin et Gösta Montell, Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China under the leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin 8 Ethnography 1 Yung-ho-kung : an iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking; with notes on Lamaist mythology and cult Vol. 1, Stockholm, (OCLC 832312716)
- (en) Ferdinand Diederich Lessing, Self-realization through self-deification, (OCLC 469776854)
- (en) Ferdinand Diederich Lessing, Structure and meaning of the rite called the bath of the Buddha according to Tibetan and Chinese sources, (OCLC 469776864)
- (en) Ferdinand Diederich Lessing, Mongolian-English Dictionary, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, (OCLC 555034176)