Ulrich Theobald is a German sinologist at the University of Tübingen.
Theobald received his MA in sinology from the University of Tübingen in 2000, followed by an MBA from Reutlingen University in 2002. He started as a lecturer in the Department of Chinese and Korean Studies at Tübingen in 2003, studying for his Ph.D. under Hans Ulrich Vogel; he received his Ph.D. in 2009 with his thesis The Second Jinchuan Campaign (1771 â 1776): Economic, Social and Political Aspects of an Important Qing Period Border War. In 2016 he was promoted to senior lecturer.
Theobald was the co-editor of Brill's East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine journal from 2014 to 2016.
Theobald runs the ChinaKnowledge.de website, an online encyclopedia of Chinese history and literature. The website appears on several undergraduate study guides: the Australian National University noted that it was useful because its content was largely derived from Chinese language secondary sources; Smith College wrote that it was a "good first place to checks texts or names to get background information".