美国著名汉学家华兹生教授(Burton Watson,1925—2017)于2017年4月1日病逝于日本,享年92岁。华兹生教授1925年生于纽约,1956年在哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位。他曾以福特基金会海外学人的身份在日本京都大学从事研究,并先后在京都大学、哥伦比亚大学及斯坦福大学教授中国及日本语文。1979年华兹生教授荣获哥伦比亚大学翻译中心金牌奖章,并且分别于1981 The famous American sinologist Burton Watson (1925-2017) died in Japan on April 1, 2017 and was 92 years old. He was born in New York in 1925 and received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1956. He studied at the Kyoto University in Japan as a Ford Foundation overseas scholar and taught Chinese and Japanese at Kyoto University, Columbia University and Stanford University. In 1979, Professor Watsons won the Gold Medal of Columbia University Translation Center, and respectively in 1981