Gotta love these moments when you have to look up both a Chinese term AND its English translation after all these years of learning both languages. zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AC%...

(A longer obituary I wrote on him these last days will appear in the next issue of "Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung" (BJOAF), but I am uploading his list of publications for easy reference to all interested as images below.) (7/7)

As the Bamboo annals said about his great hero Mu wang 穆王, whom he followed on his travels through China and Central Asia in mianbaoche and jeeps, and through commentaries and citations on paper at home, "the king has ascended" (wang zhi 王陟). R.i.p.! (6/7)

Modern Greek and other languages as well. He also was probably the funniest teacher I ever had, a wild rock guitarist and, with "his queen" Regina, the center of a large and happy family. (5/7)

the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" (2019) and a magnum opus on the Mu tianzi zhuan 穆天子傳 (2024). Manfred was a precise philologist, sensitive translator and indefatigable lexicographer who spoke native speaker level Mandarin, and excelled in Japanese, Turkic, Mongolian, (4/7)

into German, he also continued his work on Early and Medieval China, which he had begun with his masterful study of early forms of autobiography in China (1984/1987). He produced masterful monographs on the "Queen Mother of the West" (Xiwangmu 西王母) complex (1999), (3/7)

Germany's most important Chinese Language Training Center in 1985, from which he retired in 2017. Apart from many publications on TCFL, including textbooks and important dictionaries of measure words, proverbs and specialized vocabulary and a long list of movie translations (2/7)