Annemarie Esche (29 September 1925 – 13 July 2018) was a

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scholar of

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and

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. Following her studies of Burmese as a teacher of

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at the cultural centre of the German Democratic Republikc in

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from 1955 to 1963, she later became professor at

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. Aside from her linguistic publications, she edited several German collections of

. She was the widow of Otto Esche (died 2010), with whom she had cooperated in the compilation of a German-Burmese dictionary.

Works

*Esche, Annemarie (1968). ''Der Markt von Pagan. Prosa aus Burma.'' Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt. *Esche, Annemarie (1976). ''Märchen der Völker Burmas.'' Wiesbaden: Drei Lilien. *Esche, Annemarie (1976). ''Wörterbuch burmesisch-deutsch.'' Leipzig:

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. *Esche, Annemarie (1985). ''Die Goldene Pagode: Shwedagon, ein Sinnbild des Buddhismus.'' Hanau/Main: Müller & Kiepenheuer. *Esche, Annemarie & Eberhard Richter (1988). ''Burmesisches Übungsbuch''. Leipzig. VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie. *Esche, Annemarie (2005). "The experience of writing the first German-Myanmar dictionary." In Justin Watkins (ed.) ''Studies in Burmese Linguistics.'' Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University: 307-318. *Esche, Annemarie & Otto Esche (2011). ''Wörterbuch Deutsch - Myanma.'' Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.

References

Burmese studies scholars German scholars Women scholars and academics 1925 births 2018 deaths West German expatriates in Myanmar {{Burma-academic-bio-stub