Gustav Haloun
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Gustav Haloun was a Czech
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 Sinologist. He taught at Prague University (1926-1927), Halle University (1928-1931), and Göttingen University (1931-1938), before becoming Professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.

He researched about the Hundred Schools of Thought
Hundred Schools of Thought
The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period , an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China...

, Bactria
Bactria
Bactria and also appears in the Zend Avesta as Bukhdi. It is the ancient name of a historical region located between south of the Amu Darya and west of the Indus River...

, Da Yuezhi, and Guanzi
Guanzi
Guanzi may refer to:*Guan Zhong , Chinese Legalist philosopher and politician*Guanzi , Chinese text named after Guan Zhong...

texts (cf.Guan Zhong
Guan Zhong
Guǎn Zhòng was a politician and statesman during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. His given name was Yíwú . Zhong was his courtesy name. Recommended by Bao Shuya, he was appointed Prime Minister by Duke Huan of Qi in 685 BC.-Achievements:Guan Zhong modernized the Qi State by...

).

Haloun's papers are held at Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library
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.

Further reading

  • Ceadel, E. B., 'Published works of the late Professor Gustav Haloun', Asia Major 3:1 (1953)
  • Honey, David B.
    David B. Honey
    David B. Honey is a professor of Chinese at Brigham Young University. He also teaches summer courses at Middlebury College in Vermont. Honey has written on the Chinese influence on nomadic peoples of inner-Asia and also comparative works between exegeses in Western and Confucian tradition.Honey...

    , Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, 2001, pp. 152-66.

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