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Joseph Edkins
British missionary and linguist (1823–1905) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joseph Edkins (19 December 1823 – 23 April 1905) was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. As a Sinologue, he specialised in Chinese religions. He was also a linguist, a translator, and a philologist. Writing prolifically,[1] he penned many books about the Chinese language and the Chinese religions especially Buddhism. In his China's Place in Philology (1871), he tries to show that the languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin by comparing the Chinese and Indo-European vocabulary.
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Born | (1823-12-19)19 December 1823 Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||
Died | 23 April 1905(1905-04-23) (aged 81) Shanghai, Qing China | ||||||
Education | University of London | ||||||
Spouse(s) | Jane Rowbotham Edkins (née Stobbs) | ||||||
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Chinese | 艾約瑟 | ||||||
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