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Vincenz Maria Hermann Hundhausen (15 December 1878 – 18 May 1955) was a German who was a German-language professor at Peking University and a translator of Chinese works into German.[1] He used the Chinese name Hong Taosheng (traditional Chinese: 洪濤生; simplified Chinese: 洪涛生; pinyin: Hóng Tāoshēng; Wade–Giles: Hung T'ao-sheng).[1]
Hundhausen owned the Poplar Island Press, based out of his Beijing house. In addition, Hundhausen saw himself as a poet and an artist.[2]
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".[3]
- ^ a b Walravens, p. 92. "xi 洪濤生" (footnote)
- ^ Bieg, p. 71.
- ^ Merker, p. 241. "This stay grew into a lifelong intimate relationship with China, where Hundhausen [...] This extraordinary German expatriate, little known by non-sinologists,[...]"