Gustav Haloun

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Gustav Haloun (January 12, 1898, Brtnice - December 24, 1951, Cambridge, England) was a Czech sinologist.

He taught at Prague University (1926-1927), Halle University (1928-1931), and Göttingen University (1931-1938) before becoming Professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.

He researched about "諸子 (a person)", Bactria (tokhara; 大夏), Da Yuezhi (大月氏), Guan zi texts (管子; cf.Guan Zhong).

Haloun's papers are held at Cambridge University Library.

[edit] Further reading

  • Ceadel, E. B., 'Published works of the late Professor Gustav Haloun', Asia Major 3:1 (1953)
  • Honey, David B., Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, 2001, pp. 152-66.

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