Prof. Dr. Rudolf G. Wagner

Present position:

Senior Professor, University of Heidelberg 2009-

Co-Director, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows," University of Heidelberg, 2007-
 

Prof. of Chinese Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, (retired)

Director, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Heidelberg, 2005-2009.

2003-2004: Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study)

2001, June - Director, European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies, Chinaresource (Chinaresource.org)

Sept 96-Sept. 98: President of the European Association of Chinese Studies

Aug 96-: Specially appointed Professor of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

1995-: Member of the Berlin Science Academy

Dec. 1992: Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation (highest German scholarly award,
allowing for five years for research on self-selected topics)

Sept. 92 - Aug. 96: Secretary General of the EACS

1990: Award of the Akademie-Stipendium of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, to complete
research on Wang Bi's philosophy. Visiting Professor, Harvard University

1989: Research work in the PRC with Academy of Social Sciences Beijing; funding: German Research
Foundation

1987- Chair, University of Heidelberg, Chinese Studies

1984-86: Research Linguist, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1984, Jan-Jun: Visiting Professor, John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard
University

1982-83: Privatdozent Free University Berlin

1981-82: Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University

1981: Habilitation with study "Philology, Philosophy and Politics in the Zhengshi Era", Free University
Berlin

1978-81: Lecturer, Chinese Studies, East Asian Seminar, Free University Berlin; free lance science
journalist for broadcasting stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

1972-77: Assistant Professor, Sinology, Free University Berlin

1969-71: Harkness Fellow (Commonwealth Fund), Harvard University 1969-70, UC Berkeley
1970-71

1969: PhD, "Hui-yuan's Questions to Kumarajiva", University of Munich

1962-69: Study of Chinese, Japanese, Political Science, Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn,
Heidelberg, Paris and Munich

born in Wiesbaden as fourth child of Dr. O.H. Wagner and his wife Renate, born Frank

Marital status: Married to Catherine Vance Yeh, PhD. Two daughters.