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Hyacinth (Bichurin)

Russian sinologist

Died when: 75 years 255 days (908 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Hyacinth (Bichurin)

Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (?????? ????????? ???????) (29 August 1777 – 11 May 1853, St.Petersburg), better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth (sometimes rendered as Joacinth), or Iakinf (??????), was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology.

He translated many works from Chinese into Russian, which were then translated into other European languages.

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