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Holberg, Ludvig

(Bergen 1684-1754 Kopenhagen) : Norwegischer-dänischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Professor Universität Kopenhagen

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Holberg, Ludvig Baron

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Index of Names : Occident / Literature : Occident : Denmark / Literature : Occident : Norway

Chronology Entries (1)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1748-1754 Ludvig Holberg and China
Essay 241
Holberg, Ludvig. Chinese drama. Translation of the first two scenes from Ji, Junxiang. Zhao shi gu er.
Essay 243
China’s religion and the missions in China.
Essay 246
Holberg, Ludvig. On the Chinese respect for agriculture.

Ludvig Holberg relied entirely on secondry sources for his knowledge on China : Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Louis Le Comte and Christian Wolff.
His Chinese essays concern agriculture, technology, religion and the Western missions in China, sericulture, language and drama.
  • Document: Eide, Elizabeth. Some remarks on images of China in Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In : Images de la Chine : le contexte occidental de la sinologie naissante : actes du VIe Colloque international de sinology, Chantilly 1989. Sous la direction de Edward J. Malatesta et Yves Raguin. (San Francisco : Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, 1995). (Variétés sinologiques, N.S. ; vol. 78). (Eide2, Publication)