Valerie Kiel

Valerie Kiel is a Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), holding the Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China (Alexander von Humboldt-Professor). Her affiliation is with the Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, located at Hartmannstraße 14, D3, 91052 Erlangen. She can be reached at valerie.kiel@fau.de.

Her research centers on discovering and analyzing linguistic patterns in ancient Chinese mathematical texts. Key interests include syntactic analysis of accompanying texts and number words, as well as hypotheses on the semantic derivation of technical terms. She contributes to the Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) and has a background in Japanese linguistics from her M.A. at Ruhr University Bochum.

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