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    Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (5 September 1788 – 2 June 1832) was a French sinologist best known as the first Chair of Sinology at the Collège de France. Rémusat...
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    Julien was a student of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, and succeeded him as the chair of Chinese at the Collège de France upon Rémusat's death in 1832. The quantity...
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    century BCE to the 19th century CE. In 1824, the French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat identified the mo as the black-and-white Malayan tapir (Tapirus...
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  • stemmed from his familiarity with the work of French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat regarding fanqie, which demonstrated that Chinese characters were...
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    orientalist and explorer. As a scholar, he is credited along with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, with being instrumental in turning East Asian Studies into scientific...
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    translation were purchased by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat at the Collège de France, where—through a series of errors on Abel-Rémusat's part—it gave the Bonin Islands...
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    was left incomplete by the death of the book's initial editor, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. Ezo (蝦夷) or Ezogashima (蝦夷ヶ島) (lit. 'Island of the Ezo') was divided...
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  • chair of Chinese and Manchu was founded at Collège de France. Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, who taught himself Chinese, filled the position, becoming the...
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    Mongolian name for the Danube was transliterated as Tho-na in 1829 by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. See also Wiktionary: Latin: Danubius, Dānuvius; Ister. English:...
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  • Zhou's book was first translated into French by the sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in 1819, and again by Paul Pelliot in 1902. The Pelliot translation...
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  • the first president. Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat Jacques Bacot Jean Berlie Eugène Burnouf Jean-François Champollion Henri Cordier Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès...
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  • chieftains Nanai people Toi invasion In the past, scholars such as Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (apud Viktorova, 1980) Fan Zuoguai and Han Feimu (apud Zarrow,...
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    dialect. Zhou's account was first translated into French in 1819 by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat but it did not have much impact. The text of the book found in...
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    age 52 in 1918. A successor of 19th century French sinologists Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and Stanislas Julien, Chavannes was largely responsible for the...
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    published by Hunt and Clarke of London in 1827 is an adaptation of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat's French translation. The novel is about two cousins, Bai Hongyu...
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    comes from an 1817 article in the French Journal des Savans by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in which—among various other misunderstandings of his source material—he...
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    Imperial China Joseon missions to the Ryukyu Kingdom Julius Klaproth Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat Tsūkō ichiran, mid-19th century text Joseon missions to Japan Lewis...
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    published posthumously in French under the editorship of his friends Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and Heinrich Julius von Klaproth in 1820, followed by an English...
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  • Other proponents of a Turkic language theory include E.H. Parker, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Julius Klaproth, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Annemarie von Gabain, and...
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    been affiliated with the College. Past faculty include: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat Raymond Aron Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie Etienne Baluze Roland...
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    self-assured misreading of Japanese sources in an 1817 article by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat led to the name of the Bonin Islands. Brown, 1972, p. 368 Hallam...
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  • albeit none compelling. Some dictionaries and scholars (e.g. Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat) confuse Dōnghú 東胡 with Tungusic peoples, Tonggu 通古. Russian Mongolist...
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    1832: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat 1832–1837: Jean-Antoine Letronne 1838–1839: Edmé François Jomard 1839: Charles Dunoyer 1839–1840: Antoine Jean Letronne...
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  • general in the Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe. According to Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, he participated in the conquest of Kievan Rus', conquest of Poland...
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  • dermatologist Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878). Bazin studied at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832)...
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  • Denis Attiret (1702–1768) Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–1793) Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832) – studied languages of the Far East and produced the...
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    Pierre Jean Marie Laval (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laval]; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France...
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  • returns from Malacca to England "with 10,000 Chinese books." Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, who puts out the Mélanges Asiatiques collection, publishes his...
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  • mathematician (born 1811). 1 June - Jean Maximilien Lamarque, statesman (born 1770). 4 June - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist (born 1788). 5 June -...
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    Titsingh's translation were purchased by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832) at the Collège de France. After Rémusat's death, Julius Klaproth (1783–1835) at...
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