Feng Zhi
Appearance
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Born | Zhuozhou, Qing China | 17 September 1905
Died | 22 February 1993 Beijing, China | (aged 87)
Language | Mandarin |
Alma mater | Peking University Heidelberg University |
Notable awards | Goethe Medal |
Feng Zhi (Chinese: 馮至; pinyin: Féng Zhì; Wade–Giles: Feng Chih; 17 September 1905 – 22 February 1993) was a Chinese writer and translator. He was also the director and then honorary director of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1964.[1]
Feng published several collections of poems, including Songs of Yesterday and Northern Journey and Other Poems, in his early life.[1] Then he went to Germany and introduced the poetry of Rilke, Goethe, Heine, along with Novalis afterwards, thus he was bestowed Goethe Medal in the 1980s. He was also a scholar of Du Fu.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b 中国大百科全书(第二版) [Encyclopedia of China (2nd Edition)] (in Chinese). Vol. 6. Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. 2009. pp. 578–9. ISBN 978-7-500-07958-3.
- ^ Chang, Kang-i Sun (2010). The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From 1375. Cambridge University Press. p. 541. ISBN 978-0-521-85559-4.
Categories:
- 1905 births
- 1993 deaths
- 20th-century Chinese male writers
- 20th-century Chinese translators
- 20th-century Chinese poets
- Writers from Baoding
- Poets from Hebei
- Peking University alumni
- Heidelberg University alumni
- National University of Peking alumni
- Academic staff of the National Southwestern Associated University
- Educators from Hebei