Max Kaltenmark (11 November 1910 – 26 June 2002) was a French
sinologist
Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...
, of Austrian origin.
[« Kaltenmark, Maxime - (1910-2002) »]
'' Encyclopædia universalis''.
Between 1949 and 1953, he was director of the "Centre d'études sinologiques de Pékin" of the
École française d'Extrême-Orient.
[ He later was directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris until 1979.][
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Selected works
*1953: ''Le Lie-Sien Tchouan : biographies légendaires des immortels taoïstes de l'antiquité''
*1965: ''Lao Tseu et le taoïsme''
*1972: ''La Philosophie chinoise'' ( Que sais-je?).
References
External links
Maxime Kaltenmark (1910-2002)
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Persée
''Notes à propos du Kao-Mei''
on ISIDORE
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1910 births
Writers from Vienna
2002 deaths
French sinologists
Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
Austrian emigrants to France