贝特霍尔德·劳费尔

贝特霍尔德·劳费尔（Berthold Laufer，1874年1934年），生于德国科隆，移民美国，东方学家与汉学家。通晓汉语、日语、藏语。1901年-1904年，1908年- 1910年，1923年多次在中国进行长期考察，对中国的玉器，瓷器，象牙雕刻，牌搂等都有研究。自述“我深爱中国的国土和人民”。

## 生平

出生于德国犹太人家庭。1893年在柏林大学从 Wilhelm Grube攻读汉学。1897年获得德国莱比锡大学博士学位。1898年移民美国。

劳费尔晚年患有忧郁症，1934年9月13日，在芝加哥跳楼自杀身亡。

## 著作

### 英文

- 1899 Ethnological work on the island of Sakhalin
- 1899 Petroglyphs on the Amoor
- 1900 Preliminary notes on explorations among the Amoor tribes
- 1902 The decorative art of the Amur tribes, Volume 7, Part 1
- 1905 Historical jottings on amber in Asia
- 1906 The Bird-Chariot in China and Europe
- 1907 A Plea for the Study of the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences
- 1907 A theory of the origin of Chinese writing
- 1907 Note on the introduction of the groundnut into China
- 1907 The introduction of maize into eastern Asia
- 1907 The relations of the Chinese to the Philippine Islands
- 1907 W. W. Newell and the lyrics of Li-T'ai-Po
- 1908 Origin of Our Dances of Death
- 1908 The Jonah legend in India
- 1909 Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty
- 1911 Chinese grave-sculptures of the Han period
- 1911 Jade: a study in Chinese archaeology and religion
- 1911 King Tsing, the Author of the Nestorian Inscription
- 1912 Chinese pottery in the Philippines
- 1911 The Introduction of Vaccination Into the Far East
- 1912 Fish Symbols in China (Illustrated)
- 1912 Foreword to "Catalogue of a selection of art objects from the Freer collection exhibited in the new building of the National museum, April 15 to June 15, 1912"
- 1912 The Chinese Madonna in the Field Museum
- 1912 The name China
- 1912 Five newly discovered bas-reliefs of the Han period
- 1912 Confucius and his portraits
- 1912 The Wang ch'uan t'u, a landscape of Wang Wei
- 1913 Arabic and Chinese trade in walrus and narwhal ivory
- 1913 The development of ancestral images in China
- 1913 Descriptive account of the collection of Chinese, Tibetan, Mongol, and Japanese books in the Newberry Library
- 1913 Remarks on "Some aspects of North American Archaeology" by Roland B. Dixon (pp.573-574 of American Anthropologist vol.15 Issue 4
- 1913 Notes on Turquois In The East
- 1913 The Application of the Tibetan Sexagenary Cycle
- 1913 The Chinese Battle of the Fishes (With Illustration)
- 1913 The Praying Mantis in Chinese Folklore (Illustrated)
- 1914 Three Tokharian bagatelles
- 1914 Was Odoric of Pordenone ever in Tibet
- 1914 Bird divination among the Tibetans (notes on document Pelliot no 3530, with a study of Tibetan phonology of the ninth century)
- 1914 Chinese clay figures
- 1914 Some Fundamental Ideas of Chinese Culture
- 1915 火浣布与火鼠考 通报
- 1915 The diamond: a study in Chinese and Hellenistic folk-lore
- 1915 The Eskimo Screw as a Culture-Historical Problem
- 1915 The Story of the Pinna and the Syrian Lamb
- 1915 Two Chinese Imperial Jades
- 1916 The Si-hia language: A Study in Indo-Chinese Philology
- 1916 Burkhan
- 1916 Cardan's Suspension in China
- 1916 Loan-words in Tibetan 《藏语中的借词》，赵衍荪译，中国社会科学院 1981年。
- 1916 The Nichols Mo-So Manuscript
- 1917 Concerning the History of Finger-Prints
- 1917 Moccasins
- 1917 Origin of the Word Shaman
- 1917 Religious and artistic thought in ancient China
- 1917 The Beginnings of Porcelain in China, 1917
- 1917 The language of the Yüe-chi or Indo-Scythians
- 1917 The reindeer and its domestication
- 1917 The Vigesimal and Decimal Systems in the Ainu Numerals: With Some Remarks on Ainu Phonology
- 1917 Totemic Traces among the Indo-Chinese
- 1918 Origin of Tibetan Writing
- 1918 The Chinese Exhibition
- 1919 Coca and betel-chewing: A query
- 1919 Sino-Iranica; Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products《中国与伊朗：古代伊朗与中国之文化交流》，杜正胜译，台湾国立编译馆，1975年。
- 1920 Multiple Births among the Chinese
- 1920 The reindeer once more
- 1920 Sex transformation and hermaphrodites in China
- 1922 Archaic Chinese bronzes: of the Shang, Chou and Han periods, in the collections of Mr. Parish-Watson
- 1922 Preface to "Japanese collections : Frank W. Gunsaulus Hall" by Helen C. Gunsaulus
- 1922 The Chinese gateway
- 1923 Use of Human Skulls and bones in Tibet
- 1924 T'ang, Sung and Yüan paintings belonging to various Chinese collectors
- 1924 Introduction of tobacco into Europe
- 1924 Tobacco and its use in Asia
- 1925 Chinese Baskets
- 1925 Ivory in China
- 1926 Ostrich egg-shell cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in ancient and modern times
- 1926 Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups from Mesopotamia
- 1927 Archaic Chinese jades
- 1927 Agate, archaeology and folklore
- 1927 Insect-Musicians and Cricket Champions of China Djvu
- 1928 The Giraffe in History and Art
- 1928 The prehistory of aviation
- 1928 The prehistory of television
- 1930 Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central British Honduras
- 1930 A Chinese-Hebrew Manuscript, a new Source for the History of the Chinese Jews
- 1930 Geophagy
- 1930 The early history of felt
- 1930 Tobacco and its use in Africa
- 1931 Columbus and Cathay, and the Meaning of America to the Orientalist
- 1931 Paper and Printing in Ancient China
- 1931 The domestication of the cormorant in China and Japan
- 1931 Tobacco in New Guinea
- 1932 A Defender of the Faith and his Miracles
- 1932 Sino-American Points of Contact
- 1933 East and West
- 1933 Preface to "The races of mankind: an introduction to Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall"
- 1933 The Jehol pagoda model(Field Museum News Vol.4 April 1933 No.4 p.1)
- 1933 Turtle Island
- 1934 The gold treasure of the Emperor Chien Lung of China
- 1934 Chinese Muhammadan bronzes
- 1934 Etruscans (Field Museum News Vol.5 January 1934 No.1 p.2)
- 1934 Rare Chinese brush-holder (Field Museum News Vol.5 June 1934 No.6 p.4)
- 1934 The Chinese imperial gold collection
- 1934 The Lemon in China and Elsewhere
- 1934 The Noria or Persian Wheel
- 1934 The Swing in China
- 1935 Rye in the Far East and the Asiatic Origin of Our Word Series "Rye"
- 1938 The American plant migration. The potato
- 1939 Christian art in China

### 法文

- 1905 Anneaux nasaux en Chine
- 1917 La Mandragore
- 1918 Malabathron
- 1922 Sanskrit Karketana

### 德文

- 1898 Blumen, die unter den Tritten von Menschen hervorsprossen
- 1898 Über eine Gattung mongolischer Volkslieder und ihre Verwandtschaft mit türkischen Liedern
- 1898-1899 Ueber das va zur. Ein Beitrag zur Phonetik der tibetischen Sprache: part 1 part 2 part 3
- 1908 Skizze der manjurischen Literatur
- 1907 Zur Geschichte der Brille

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