Edouard Chavannes

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Edouard Chavannes

Édouard Chavannes (born October 5, 1865 in Lyon , † January 29, 1918 in Paris ) was a French sinologist .

Act

His best-known work is his (incomplete) translation of Sima Qian's Shiji ( Les Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien , 5 volumes, 1895–1905), for which a later published index volume exists. His studies of the stone inscriptions from the two Han dynasties ( La sculpture sur pierre en Chine au temps des deux dynasties Han , 1893) and the Chinese religion ( Le T'ai chan: essai de monographie d'un culte chinois: appendice Le dieu du sol dans la Chine antique , 1910). The latter is a study of the worship of Mount Tai ( Tai Shan ) in ancient China, a pioneering work in modern sinology for its combination of textual analysis and field research. His students included Paul Pelliot , Marcel Granet and Vasili Michailowitsch Alexejew .

In 1913 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

expenditure

  • Se-Ma Ts'ien: Les mémoires historiques , Traduits et annotés par Édouard Chavannes, 6 volumes, Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1967–1969 (Collection UNESCO d'oeuvres représentatives: Série Chinoise)
  • Le T'ai chan: essai de monographie d'un culte chinois: appendice Le dieu du sol dans la Chine antique , facsimile of the 1910 edition, Phénix Editions, 2000, ISBN 978-2-7458-0906-3
  • Contes et Légend du Bouddhisme Chinois , DHARMA, 1998, ISBN 978-2-86487-031-9

Secondary literature

  • The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 1, page 286

Web links

Commons : Édouard Chavannes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Some works - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Individual evidence

  1. China in 1907 - A Travel Diary. Ed. By BL Riftin, translated from the Russian by S. Behrsing, with an essay "The Russian Sinologist Alekseev and his trips to China" by MV Bankovskaja u. BL Riftin.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Édouard-Émmanuel Chavannes. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed February 27, 2016 (in Russian).