Died 1832-06-04.
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Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat was a French sinologist best known as the first Chair of Sinology at the Collège de France. Rémusat studied medicine as a young man, but his discovery of a Chinese herbal treatise enamored him with the Chinese language, and he spent five years teaching himself to read it. After publishing several well-received articles on Chinese topics, a chair in Chinese was created at t…
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science · French sinologist (1788–1832) · librarian · professor · sinologist · translator · writer · philologist · orientalist · physician · also Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre Abel-Remusat, Abel Rémusat, Rémusat, Remusat, Abel Remusat
Born 5 September 1788 · Died 4 June 1832 · Q716743
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1832· 2 entries
But contracted cholera and died before it was printed
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1829· 1 entry
Was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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1826· 1 entry
Rémusat published Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois (Yu Jiao Li, titled in English as Iu-kiao-li: or, the Two Fair Cousins), one of the first Chinese novels known in Europe (the Chinese original is a minor
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1822· 1 entry
As Élémens de la grammaire chinoise, ou Principes généraux du Kou-wen ou style antique, et du Kouan-hou, c'est-à-dire, de la language commune généralement usitée dans l'empire chinois (Elements of Chinese Grammar, or Gen
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1814· 2 entries
A chair in Chinese was created for him at the Collège de France
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And Rémusat was placed in it
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1813· 1 entry
Rémusat published an essay in Latin on the nature of Chinese characters and Classical Chinese entitled "Utrum Lingua Sinica sit vere monosyllabica
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1811· 1 entry
At the end of five years of study, he produced the work Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises (Essay on Chinese language and literature), and a paper on foreign languages among the Chinese, which procured him t
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1788· 1 entry
Born 1788-09-05.
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