How to say the name in German and Engish?
"The German people respect for Confucius very much and Confucianism which is the Chinese culture and also a symbol of the Oriental culture has extremely broad connotation. Confucius belongs to not noly China, but also the world."

I translate the above sentences from Chinese. What I know is that the scholar is German. What I want to know is the name of the scholar. In Chinese we call him "maolaifu"

Thank you.

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How to say the name in German and Engish?
"The German people respect for Confucius very much and Confucianism which is the Chinese culture and also a symbol of the Oriental culture has extremely broad connotation. Confucius belongs to not noly China, but also the world."

I translate the above sentences from Chinese. What I know is that the scholar is German. What I want to know is the name of the scholar. In Chinese we call him "maolaifu"

Thank you.

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Thank you anyway.

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The name does not 'ring a bell' as a phonetic translation. The only place I can see that reference is in Chinese, but never with a Western name.

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His name is 毛来夫.

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Working something out from a translation is difficult. Working it out from a bad translation of a translation (of a translation?) is impossible. Why not give the name in 汉字 as well? That would be much more useful than pinyin with no tones...

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Which university does this scholar work at? We can't figure out who this person is without having something to search for.