Henri Maspero

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Henri Maspero (December 15, 1882 - March 17, 1945) was a French sinologist. After studies in history and literature, he joined his father, the famous Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, in Egypt and later published the study Les Finances de l'Egypt sous les Lagides. After returning to Paris, in 1907, Maspero obtained a license to practice law. In the same year he graduated in Chinese from the École de Langues Orientales Vivantes, where he studied under Chavannes and Sylvain Lévi.

In 1918 he succeeded Chavannes in the Chair of Chinese at the Collège de France. Being Jewish, he died in Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War.