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Vincenz Hundhausen (15 December 1878 – 1955) was a German who was a German-language professor at Peking University and a translator of Chinese works into German.〔Walravens, p. (92 ). "xi 洪濤生" (footnote)〕 He used the Chinese name Hong Taosheng ().〔 Hundhausen owned the Poplar Island Press, based out of his Beijing house. In addition, Hundhausen saw himself as a poet and an artist.〔Bieg, p. (71 ).〕 In 2001 Annette Merker, author of a book review of ''Vincenz Hundhausen (1878-1955): Leben und Werk des Dichters, Druckers, Verlegers, Professors, Regisseurs und Anwalts in Peking'', wrote that he was "little known by non-sinologists".〔Merker, p. 241. "This stay grew into a lifelong intimate relationship with China, where Hundhausen lived and worked, with only one brief interruption, for thirty-one years. Looking back in 1946, he wrote that he had made the decision not to return to Germany soon after he first arrived in Peking because he had already foreseen the political developments to come. Eight years later, in 1954, he was expelled by the Chinese government, and he died the following year in his home town of Grevenbroich, aged seventy-seven. This extraordinary German expatriate, little known by non-sinologists,()"〕 ==Life== Hundhausen was born in Grevenbroich on 15 December 1878. His father, V. Hundhausen, was a factory owner. V. Hundhausen's grandfather, " TITLE="Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio">Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio (DE), was a friend of Ernst Moritz Arndt.〔Bieg, p. (67 ).〕 Hundhausen studied law in the cities of Bonn, Berlin, Freiburg, and Munich. In 1909 in Berlin Hundhausen began practicing law and working as a notary. During World War I Hundhausen initially served as an officer. He became a prosecutor serving in Eastern Europe for the Commander-in-Chief of the East.〔 By the year 1923, Hundhausen had become a specialist in property administration and guardianship. In 1923, Hundhausen was the executor of the Pape-assets in Tianjin and he had been asked to settle an inheritance case there. He stated that he had a lack of knowledge and awareness of China when he traveled there at age 45.〔Bieg, p. (68 ).〕 Hundhausen stayed in China, living and working there for 31 years, with one short interruption. In 1946 Hundhausen stated that after he first arrived in China he decided to stay there because he foresaw political developments that would occur in Germany.〔 He worked for the State University of Peking as a professor of German literature.〔 From 1924 to 1937 he taught "German and World Literature" at the university.〔Bieg, p. (69 ).〕 In China he also became a publisher-printer, a poet, and a translator. In western Beijing he lived in an estate called "Poplar Island" (''Pappelinsel''),〔 located west of the former Beijing city wall,〔Merker, p. 242.〕 near the former wall's southwestern corner.〔 It was his base for printing, publishing, translating, and writing of poetry.〔 His business was called the Poplar Island Press ((ドイツ語:Pappelinsel-Verlag)〔Merker, p. 243.〕 or (ドイツ語:Pappelinsel-Werkstatt), Chinese: T: 楊樹島, S: 杨树岛, P: ''Yángshù dǎo'', W: ''Yang-shu tao'')〔 In the late 1930s about 40 employees worked for the business in the house's courtyards.〔 In 1926 he sent letters to the Parliament of Germany urging the country to not join the Nine Power Treaty. He wrote that his letters were successful in "preventing Germany at the very last moment from joining to the Nine Power Treaty, already passed by the legislative body, which was to be repeatedly abused to China’s detriment".〔 After the institutionalized German community was founded in 1935, he refused to join it. He resigned from the Zhong de Xuehui (T: 中德學會, S: 中德学会, P: ''Zhōng Dé Xuéhuì'', W: ''Chung De Hsüeh-hui''), the German government's "German Institute" located in China.〔 The Nazis forced him to leave his university position in 1937.〔 The German Ambassador to China commented on Hundhausen's expulsion from his position by stating "only such teaching staff are required as are better able to serve the new political era in Germany."〔 That year, Hundhausen took control of Peking University's printing press, keeping it away from the control of the invading Japanese. He used it to increase his printing business. He said that several hundred cultural works had been produced with it.〔 In 1954 the Chinese government expelled him,〔 and he was deported to Germany.〔 Annette Merker wrote that "Hundhausen’s isolation in China during the war years, his intellectual isolation from Germany, and not least the violent political upheavals in China, which caused him, unlike other Germans, to be expelled from that country, prevented him from making a new start in Germany."〔Merker, p. 244.〕 He died in Grevenbroich in 1955.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vincenz Hundhausen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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