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Franke, Prof. Alwin Wilhelm Otto (27.09.1863 - 05..08.1946)

Alwin Wilhelm Otto Franke was a sinologist. Franke worked initially an interpreter, and susequently held the first German chair for Languages and History of East Asia at the Colonial Institute in Hamburg from 1910. He became a professor for Sinology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin, teaching there from 1923 to 1931. In 1923 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

In 1937 Franke donated a medal by Dautert on himself to the Münzkabinett Berlin.

Lit.: H. Franke, Franke, Alwin Wilhelm Otto, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) 5, 1961, pp. 346-347.

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Wikipedia [de]

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