Werner Burger (Chinese name: 布威纳 Bu Weina; 1936 – 15 November 2021) was a German numismatist specialising in Chinese coins of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).[1] He wrote the first PhD on Chinese numismatics.[2]
Burger was born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, in 1936. He studied Chinese at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), graduating in 1962. He went to China in 1963 to teach German in Shanghai. When the school he was teaching at closed down, he was sent to be a sheep farmer. He then moved to Hong Kong to research Chinese numismatics.[3] He died in Hong Kong on 15 November 2021.[4]