Institute for Chinese Studies at Heidelberg

Institute for Chinese Studies at Heidelberg

"The Institute for Chinese Studies as part of the Faculty for Oriental and Classical Studies at the University of Heidelberg was established in 1962. Prof. Bauer was then the first chair until he took up his new position at Munich. In 1968 Prof. Debon was appointed to the vacant chair and acted as the head of the department until his retirement in 1986. In 1987 Prof. Wagner and in 1989 Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik came to Heidelberg to fill the vacant positions. A third professor, Dr. Barend ter Haar, arrived in 1994. The institute is actively engaged in various academic projects. It is located in the heart of the pictoresque city of Heidelberg in a not so pictoresque building (albeit with lots of space). "