Person

Sargent, Geoffrey W.

1923–1976

Übersetzer (Japanisch-Englisch). Geoffrey W. Sargent (1923-1976) was born in Plymouth, England. He studied classics at Cambridge University and did a crash course in Japanese while serving in the Army Intelligence Corps in 1943-46. He returned to Cambridge and completed the Oriental Tripos in 1949 and a doctoral thesis on the Tokugawa novelist Ihara Saikaku in 1954. He was a Visiting Professor of English and Latin at Kochi University in 1954-56 and a Visiting Professor of English Literature at Konan University in Kobe in 1956-58. In 1959 he joined the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney, where he became Associate Professor in 1967. He was president of the Oriental Society of Australia in 1963-65