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First in Exhibition Series of Life of
Foreign Teachers: Kathe
Starkloff-Linke from the Department
of German
PKU NEWS 2010--05--03
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=272867528
Peking University. Beijing. May 3, 2010: The department of German from the School
of Foreign Languages held an exhibition at PKU Museum of University History with
the German Research Center of Peking University on April 26 entitled ―Forever
Gratitude – Life of Kathe Starkloff-Linke‖ over 100 people, including Kathe
Starkloff-Linke‘s children, her former colleagues, students she taught,
representatives from the German embassy and teachers from the department of
German, attended this exhibition to pay tribute to the great contributions Kathe
Starkloff-Linke made in areas like the German major construction and training at
PKU, cultural communication between China and Germany and so on.
Kathe Starkloff-Linke was born in Berlin in 1906 and later studied in the University of
Berlin, University of Heidelberg, Goettingen University. She earned her doctorate in
philosophy in 1935. In 1941, she was married to Mr. Zhao Xilin, who is a renowned
expert in metallurgy in our country. She came to China with her husband in 1947 and
later taught in Beiyang University and Tsinghua University. She took on Chinese
nationality in 1953. In 1954, she was transferred to Peking University to be a teacher
in German major, the department of Western languages.
Through the joint efforts of many famous scholars and translators, she taught and
trained excellent students with her academic passion, profound knowledge and
rigorous attitudes of study, which paved the way for the flourishing of the German
major at Peking University, which has always played a vital part in China‘s teaching,
researching and translation of German literature. Moreover, graduates from the
department of German have also achieved glorious success in German literature
and areas such as economics, diplomacy, science etc. In addition, Kathe
Starkloff-Linke also took up translation work for the Foreign Language Publish
House, Beijing Weekly and took part in translation and editing of such books like the
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