Mr. Klaus Schlichtmann
Mr. Schlichtmann, who was born near Hamburg, is now a Ph.D. candidate at
Kiel University, having embarked on an academic career in middle life after
setting his hand to a variety of employments. His past career includes art
study in Italy; absorbing Indian philosophy and religion at Benares, India,
while teaching German at the Sanskrit College; working as an artist in Hamburg,
Germany, and then returning to India to set up a graphic art workshop in
Kathmandu, Nepal, and subsequently undertake field study tours to deepen
his insight into the Indian social structure and traditional culture; returning
to Germany to become a peace activist and take part in establishing the
Greens party. Since 1992 he has been a visiting scholar at the Faculty of
Comparative Culture, Sophia University; from September 1992, to August,
1993, he had a scholarship from the Japanese-German Centre in Berlin to
collect material for his Ph.D. on Japanese diplomacy (which forms the basis
of the paper he read to the ASJ), and since that time he has been teaching
intensive language courses at the Goethe Institute in Tokyo.
Adapted
from "The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin No. 4", April 1995,
compiled by Hugh Wilkinson.
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