James Legge
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 127 years ago |
Date of birth | December 20,1815 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Huntly |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | November 29,1897 |
Died | Oxford |
United Kingdom | |
Children | Thomas Morison Legge |
James Granville Legge | |
Current partner | Hannah Mary Johnstone |
Grandchildren | Dominica Legge |
Cecilia Legge | |
Henry James Granville Legge | |
Beatrice Pompilia Legge | |
Education | King's College |
University of Aberdeen | |
Books | The Chinese Classics |
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms | |
The Shih King Or Book of Poetry | |
The Texts of Taoism | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 767374 |
James Legge Life story
James Legge was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong and was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University.