Abstract:

In the early 1930s, as a student of German majors at Tsinghua University, Ji Xianlin purchased
the German original version of Hölderlins Samtliche Werke , read and translated Many poems of Hölderlin’s,
had published The Genius Found Today － the German Poet Hölderlin and The Study on the Modern Big
German Poet Hölderlin’s Early Poetry . Thus Ji Xianlin made his own contribution to the early translation and
introduction of Hölderlin’s works in China .