Conrad Schirokauer, was a German-American historian and writer. Born on April 29, 1929, in
Leipzig, he died in
Cleveland, Ohio, on September 19, 2018.[1][2] His father, Arno Schirokauer, was a German-Jewish literary scholar and philologist.
Schirokauer's family left Germany when he was six years old, in flight from the Nazi regime, and, after three years in Italy, eventually migrated to the United States where they settled in Tennessee in 1938, and eventually moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated high school from
Williston Academy in 1946 as the
valedictorian.
Conrad Schirokauer married Lore Strich in November 1956. They had met as children in Italy in the mid-thirties.
Bibliography
Schirokauer is the author of books including:
A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations,[5] also published separately as A Brief History of Chinese Civilization[6] and A Brief History of Japanese Civilization[7]
Chu Hsi's political career: A study in ambivalence[8]
With Robert P. Hymes, he is the co-editor of:
Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (1993)[9]
He is also the translator of a book by Ichisada Miyazaki:
China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China[10]
References
^Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann,
James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016,
ISBN978-1-78238-985-9, pages 13, 35‒35, 431‒432 (including a short biography and bibliography).
^Daum, Andreas W. (2016). The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn. pp. 431–32.
Andreas W. Daum, "Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities," in The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide, ed. Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann,
James J. Sheehan. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016,
ISBN978-1-78238-985-9, pages 1‒52.