Hyun Jin Kim
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Hyun Jin Kim FAHA (born 1982) is an Australian academic, scholar and author.[1][2][3][4]
Hyun Jin Kim | |
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Born | 1982 |
Nationality | New Zealand |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Classics Sinology |
Institutions | University of Melbourne |
He was born in Seoul and raised in Auckland, New Zealand.[5] Kim got his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford.[6] He started learning Latin, German, and French when he was 10, and was urged to study Ancient Greek in university by his father. He is a scholar of ancient Greece, Rome and China. Kim has published several works on Eurasian/ Central Asian peoples, such as the Huns.[7][1][8][9] In 2019, Kim was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[10][11]
His work focuses chiefly on comparative analyses of ancient Greece/Rome and China.[1][12][13] His first major work on such topic was Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China, published in 2009.[14][15]