Dirk Mosig correspondence (Ms.2018.005)

Biographical/Historical Note

A native of Germany, Dr. [Yozan “Dirk”] Mosig lived for several years in Spain and for 15 years in Argentina before coming to the U.S. He attended Eastern New Mexico University for his undergraduate studies, and the University of Florida for his graduate work, earning a M.A. in 1969 and the Ph.D. in psychology in 1974. He has travelled extensively, is fluent in several languages, and has been a professor at [The University of Nebraska at Kearney] since 1977.

Dr. Mosig is a Zen Buddhist monk (trained under Zen Master Dainin Katagiri) and an 8th Degree Black Belt in Okinawan Karate and Kobudo (weaponry) with over 50 years of training in the martial arts (winner of five world championship titles at the U.S.K.A. World Championships/Grand Nationals: Black Belt Kumite, Heavyweight Division, in 1969 and 1970; Masters' Kata, in 1980 and 1988; Black Belt Weapons, in 1989). He has received the Robert Bloch Award from the New England Lovecraft Society for his research on H. P. Lovecraft, and the Pratt-Heins Award in Scholarship from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is currently conducting research on the Punic Wars and the life and personality of Hannibal Barca (247-183 B.C.E.), the great Carthaginian general who led an army (with 37 elephants) over the Alps to invade Italy and defeated the Romans in a series of battles (including the one at Cannae, on August 2, 216 B.C.E., widely regarded as the most brilliant military victory in history).

Dr. Mosig has presented his research internationally. Among his recent presentations are: "Revision and Reconstruction in the Second Punic War: Zama-Whose Victory?" at the Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, American University of Paris, France, July 17, 2007; "Revision and Reconstruction in the Punic Wars: Cannae Revisited," at the Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, July 5, 2006; "Western and Eastern Conceptions of the Self," at Taraz University, Taraz, Kazakhstan, May 2002, and "The Archetypal Power of Sibelius," at the Third International Jean Sibelius Conference, Helsinki, Finland, December 9, 2000. He has also taught workshops and seminars on Zen Meditation, Stress Management, and Martial Arts in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela, and on H. P. Lovecraft in Italy.

From Yozan Mosig’s faculty page, http://www.unk.edu/academics/psychology/faculty-staff/yozan-mosig.php (accessed March 5, 2018)