Antoine Bazin

Antoine-Pierre-Louis Bazin (26 March 1799 - January 1863) was a French sinologist born in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt. He was the brother of dermatologist Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878).

He studied at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832) and Stanislas Julien (1797-1873). Later he was an professor of Chinese at the École des langues orientales, and an assistant director of the Société Asiatique. He contributed numerous articles to the Journal asiatique.

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