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).
[2] Burger was born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, in 1936.
He studied Chinese at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), graduating in 1962.
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.