Walter Simon (sinologist)

Career

• Higher Library Service, Berlin University Library, 1919–35
• Exchange Librarian, National Library of Peking, 1932–33
• Lecturer in Chinese, University of Berlin, 1926–32; Extraordinary Professor of Chinese, University of Berlin, 1932–34
• Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1936; Reader in Chinese, University of London, 1938; Professor of Chinese, University of London, 1947–60, Emeritus Professor, 1960
• Visiting Professor: University of Toronto, 1961–62; Australian National University, Canberra, 1962; Tokyo, Canberra and Melbourne, 1970

Other posts

• Editor, Asia Major, 1964–75
• Honorary Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Honorary Vice-President, Royal Asiatic Society, 1976–1981

  Publications on Chinese linguistics

• Zur Rekonstruktion der altchinesischen Endkonsonanten, 2 Parts, 1928–29
• Tibetisch-chinesische Wortgleichungen: Ein Versuch, W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1930.
• Chinese Sentence Series, 3 volumes, 1942–44
• The New Official Chinese Latin Script Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tables, Rules, Illustrative Examples, Probsthain, London 1942.
• Chinese National Language Reader and Guide to Conversation, 1943.
• 1200 Chinese Basic Characters, 1944
• How to Study and Write Chinese Characters, 1944
• Structure Drill through Speech Patterns, I. Structure Drill in Chinese, 1945
• A Beginners' Chinese-English Dictionary of the National Language / Chujyi Jong-Ing Gwoyeu Tzyhdean 《初級中英國語字典》, Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., London 1947.

  Publications on Tibetan linguistics

• 1941. "Certain Tibetan suffixes and their combinations." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 5: 372–391. DOI: 10.2307/2717917
• 1942. "Tibetan dang, cing, kyin, yin and ‘am". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 10, 1942. 954–975.
• 1949. "The range of sound alternation in Tibetan word families." Asia Major 1:1–15
• 1955. "A Note on Tibetan Bon." Asia Major 5.1: 5–8.
• 1956. "Tibetan "so" and Chinese "ya" 'Tooth'" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 18.3 : 512–513.
• 1957. "Tibetan gseb and cognate words." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 20 : 523–32
• 1962. "Tibetan par, dpar, spar, and cognate words." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25 : 720–80.
• 1964. "Tibetan Lexicography and Etymological Research." Transactions of the Philological Society : 85–107.
• 1966. "Tibetan nyin-rans and tho-rangs." Asia Major 12, 1966. 179–84.
• 1967. "The Tibetan particle re." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 30 : 117–26.
• 1968. "Tibetan re in its wider context." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 31 : 555–62.
• 1969. "Cognates of Tibetan rnangs-pa." Academica Sinica: Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 39 : 287–9.
• 1970. "Some suggestions toward a Romanization of modern Tibetan." Roman Jakobson and Shigeo Kawamoto, eds. Studies in General and Oriental Linguistics. Tokyo: TEC, 535–539.
• 1971. “Tibetan ‘fifteen’ and ‘eighteen’." Études Tibétaines: dédiées à la mémoire de Marcelle Lalou. Paris: Libraire d’Amérique et d’Orient, 1971.
• 1975. "Iotization and palatalization in classical Tibetan." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 38: 611–615.
• 1977. "Alternation of Final Vowel with Final Dental Nasal or Plosive in Tibetan." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40.1 : 51–57.
• 1979. "Tibetan stes, stes-te, etc. and some of the Sanskrit correspondences." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 42 : 334–6.
• 1980. "Some Tibetan Etymologies of Semantic Interest." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 43.1 : 132–136.