Wim Boot
Professor emeritus of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Language
- Name
- Prof.dr. W.J. Boot
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2171
- w.j.boot@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2913-8287
Prof. Willem Boot is emeritus professor. He doesn't have a desk at the university anymore. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.
Fields of interest
- History and intellectual history of premodern Japan
- Literature and poetics
Research
History of Japanese thought in the Edo Period, with special emphasis on Confucianism
CV
Education
- 1966-1976: Japanese Studies, Korean Studies and Chinese History at Leiden University and the University of Kyoto
- 1977-1980: research assistant
- 1983: Ph.D. at Leiden University
Employment
- 1980-1985: employed in various capacities at the Dept of Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University
- 1985: appointed full professor in The Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea
- 2001: Guest professor at Kyoto University
- 2008-2009: Guest professor at Sophia University, Tokyo
- 2012 (december): retired
Professor emeritus of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Language
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS Japan
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