Ralph Kauz#
| Membership Number: | 7076 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/sin/de/pers/kauz |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor for Sinology at the University of Bonn
- 9/2019 - 3/2020 Visiting professor at Nanjing University
- 9/2010 - 1/2011 Visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan)
- 4-9/2006 and 10/2007 - 3/2008 Visiting professor at Marburg University (Sinology)
- 10/2005 - 3/2006 Visiting professor at the University of Bonn (Iranian Studies)
- 2003 - 2010 Junior and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Fields of Scholarship
- Chinese history of the Yuan and Ming periods
- Political und economical history of the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean
- Relations between Iran, Central Asia and China (Middle Ages and Early Modern Period)
Honours and Awards
- 1995 - 1998 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at Nanjing University and other academic institutions in China
- Various research projects founded by the German Research Council (DFG), Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Thyssen Foundation, Confucius Institute and others
