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Hyacinth (Bichurin)

Hyacinth (Bichurin)
Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (d. 1853)

Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth, sometimes Joacinth or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology. He translated many works from Chinese into Russian, which were then translated into other European languages.

29 August 1777

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