1823 - 1905
Joseph Edkins British Linguist
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| First Name |
Joseph
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| Last Name |
Edkins
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| Birthday |
19th December, 1823
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| Birthplace |
Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England
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| Died |
23rd April, 1905
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| Place of Death |
Shanghai, Qing China
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Linguist
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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, 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.
