Josef Kreiner#
| Membership Number: | 1099 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - Visiting Fellow , Institute for International Japanese Studies , University Hôsei
- 2008 Professor Emeritus at the University of Bonn
- 2005 - 2008 Special Advisor to the President of the University of Tokyo
- 1988 - 1996 Founding director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
- 1977 - 2008 Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Bonn
- 1971 - 1977 Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna
- 1969 - 1971 Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Bonn
Fields of Scholarship
- History
- Ethnography
- Japan
- Society
Honours and Awards
- 1968 Cardinal Innitzer Prize
- 1980 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1987 Special Price of the Japan Foundation
- 1991 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1995 Higa Shunchô Prize of the Society for Cultural Research Okinawa
- 1996 Yamagata Bantô Prize of Osaka Prefecture
- 1996 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
- 1997 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Honorary doctorate from the School of Social Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University
- 2005 Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize of the DFG
- 2008 Honorary Member of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
