Fw: H-ASIA: Else Glahn (1921-2011)

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Subject: H-ASIA: Else Glahn (1921-2011)

> H-ASIA
> July 8, 2011
>
> Else Glahn (1921-2011)
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> From: Nancy Steinhardt <nssteinh@sas.upenn.edu>
>
> This is to report that sinologist and architectural historian Else Glahn
> passed away last month in Svendborg, Denmark, at the age of 90. A student
> of Bernhard Karlgren, she was a pioneer in the study of the Song
> architectural treatise /Yingzao fashi/. In 1973 she became the founding
> professor of Denmark's second Institute of East Asian Studies, at the
> University of Aarhus, where she spent most of her career, along with long
> sojourns in China and Japan and several extended visits to the United
> States. Glahn's most widely-read article is "On the Transmission of the
> Ying-tsao fa-shih," _ T'oung Pao_ LXI, 4-5 (1975): 232-265.
>
> Nancy S. Steinhardt University of Pennsylvania
> nssteinh@sas.upenn.edu
>
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> Ed. note: In addition to the article cited by Dr. Steinhardt, a partial
> list of Professor Glahn's publications includes:
>
> "Palaces and Paintings in Sung." In Margaret Medley, ed. _Chinese
> Painting and the Decorative Style_. London: University of London, School
> of Oriental and African Studies, 1976. (Colloquies on art and archaeology
> in Asia, no.5). 39-57
>
> "Some Chou and Han Architectural Terms." _Museum of Far Eastern
> Antiquities Bulletin_ (Stockholm) no. 50 (1978), 105-125.
>
> "The Tradition of Chinese Building." In K.G. Izikowitz and P. Sorensen,
> eds. _The House in East and Southeast Asia: Anthropological and
> Architectural Aspects_. London: Curzon Press, 1982. Pp. 25-34.
>
> _KiNESiSKE Essays i dansk oversaettelse med indledning og forklaringer_.
> (Orientalsk Visdom, under redaktion af Kaare Gronbech og C. E.
> Sander-Hansen.) Nyt Nordisk Forlag, Arnold Busck, Kobenhavn, 1956.
>
> RD
>
>
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