Leopold De Saussure
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 99 years ago |
Date of birth | May 30,1866 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Geneva |
Switzerland | |
Died | Geneva |
Switzerland | |
Date of died | July 30,1925 |
Parents | Henri Louis Frederic de Saussure |
Grandchildren | Delphine Seyrig |
Francis Seyrig | |
Children | Hermine de Saussure |
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ID | 4299466 |
Leopold De Saussure Life story
Léopold de Saussure was a Swiss-born French sinologist, pioneering scholar of ancient Chinese astronomy, and officer in the French navy. After a naval career which took him to Indochina, China, and Japan, he left the service and devoted the rest of his life to scholarship.