Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t24.4

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and learned English and Sanskrit. After graduation in 1934, he went back to his Alma Mater Shandong Jinan No.1 High School to teach Chinese language. In 1935, he became a graduate exchange student of Tsinghua University and went to study at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen majoring in Indology. He studied Sanskrit, Pali, Tocharian, Russian, Yugoslavia, Arabic, etc., under the guidance of Ernst Waldschmidt and Emil Sieg. In 1937, he also lectured at the Institute of Sinology, University of Goettingen. In September 1941, he received his PhD. In 1946, he returned to China and was appointed as a Professor of Peking University and the Director of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. In 1956, he was elected as a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.