Prof. Dr. Hans van Ess

Lebenslauf

Employment  

Since October 1998:
Full Professor for Chinese Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of München (LMU) 

April 1995 - September 1998:    
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Chinese Studies of the University of Heidelberg

September 1992 - März 1995: 
Area manager at the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (Ostasiatischer Verein) in Hamburg, a non-governmental private membership association: responsible for business contacts of membership companies with activities in PR China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Republic of Korea, Demokratic Republic of Korea und Mongolia; several publications on Chinese und Korean politics und economics; Secretary General of the Euro-China Business Association           

September 1981 - Dezember 1982:    
Social service in a hospital for paralytics in Tübingen

Major Positions held at LMU

since 2013: 
Vice President for International Affairs

2009 - 2011:
Senator

2007 - 2009:
Vice President for Teaching and Learning 

October 2005 - September 2007:
Vice Dean of the Faculty for Cultural Studies at the University of Munich

October 2003 - September 2005:
Dean of the Faculty for Cultural Studies at the University of Munich 

Education:

1998:              
Habilitation (University of Hamburg)

1992:              
Dr. phil in Chinese Studies (University of Hamburg)

1988 - 1992:    
PhD student at the University of Hamburg (Supervisor: Prof. H. Stumpfeldt)

September 1986 - Juli 1988:      
Post-graduate studies as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellow at Fudan-University Shanghai, PR China

September 1986:
MA (Magister Artium)

August 1984: 
Three month language training at Beijing daxue, PR China

April 1983:
Chinese, Mongolian and Turcic Studies, philosophy at the University of Hamburg, other languages: Japanese and Sanscrit

1972 - 1981:  
Highschool (Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen, first language Latin, second language English, third language Classical Greek, fourth language French)    

1968 - 1972:    
Primary school in Tübingen 

Some Memberships

European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), 1998-2004 Treasurer

Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS)

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)

Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

Mongolian Society

Editor

Lun Wen (Studien zur chinesischen Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz

Editorial Board

Minima Sinica (Bonn)

Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm)

Archiv orientální (Prag)

Journal of Chinese Philosophy (Honolulu)

T’oung Pao (Paris)

Guoxue xuekan  (Research in the Traditions of Chinese Culture; Peking)

Honors

Halls-Bascom Professor, University of Madison, Wisconsin, March 2014

Honorary Professor, Sun Zhongshan University Guangzhou, 2014-

President of the Max-Weber-Foundation, 1 March 2015 -