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During 1994 to 1996, he studied at Waseda University in Tokyo. His Doctor of Philosophy was awarded by the University of Vienna in 1999.
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Bernhard Scheid
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Scheid matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1980. His early interest in cultural anthropology led to a specialization in Japanese studies. He earned a master"s degree in 1993.
Scheid was a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Institut für Kulturund Geistesgeschichte Asiens) from 1997 through 2001.
Since 2002, Scheid has been a permanent research fellow in the field of Japanese Studies at this institution. He also joined the faculty of the Department of East Asian Studies at Vienna University in 2001 as a lecturer on Japanese religion.
In 2012 he was a guest professor at the University of Göttingen, faculty of religious studies. His early research and writing investigated aspects of aging and becoming old in the Japanese Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries), from the late-Heian period through the Sengoku period.
According to Scheid"s first published work, Im Innersten meines Herzens empfinde ich tiefe Scham: das Alter im Schrifttum das japanischen Mittelalters (In my Heart of Hearts I feel Deep Shame: the Aged in the Japanese Medieval Literature) the perceived norm of old age primarily as a time of suffering and isolation changed in a context of the newly emerging feudal structures.
Academic web projects Scheid is a webmaster who has developed and maintained academic websites with the objective of advancing teaching and research in Japanese studies. Religion in Japan, since 2001. Kamigraphie, since 2011 Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, since 1999.
11th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), 2004 Scheid has been for many years an internationally ranked player of In 2010, he tied for 16th place in the 31st World Amateur Championship (WAGC) in Hangzhou, China and he aspires to be taken seriously as a player.
He participated as Austrian representative at World Amateur Championships in Japan, China and of Korea.
