今年是德国著名的汉学家弗兰茨·库恩(一八八四——一九六一)诞辰一百周年。一九○四年至一九○七年,他在柏林学习汉语,一九○九年被当时的德国政府派往中国,任德国驻中国使馆随员。一九一二年离职回汉堡再攻中文,自此开始走上翻译介绍中国文学的道路。库恩在近五十年的时间里,将中国古典文学名 This year marks the centenary of the birth of Franz Kun, a famous German sinologist (1884-1961). He studied Chinese in Berlin from 1904 to 1907 and was sent to China by the then German government in 1909 as a member of the German embassy in China. After leaving in 1912 to return to Hamburg for attacking Chinese, he has since embarked on the path of translating and introducing Chinese literature. Kuhn in the past 50 years, the name of Chinese classical literature