List of sinologists

A list of sinologists around the world, past and present.

Australia

Rafe de Crespigny (born 1936)
Charles Patrick Fitzgerald (1902- 1992)
Colin Mackerras (born 1939)
Robert Henry Mathews (1877-1970)
John Minford
Pierre Ryckmans (1935- 2014)

Austria

Michael Prochazka

Belgium

Bulgaria

Snejina Gogova

Canada

Timothy Brook
Charles Burton
Jerome Ch'en (born 1919)
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Michael Szonyi
Chia-ying Yeh

China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau

Czech Republic

Gustav Haloun (1898–1951)
Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980)
Vera Halbik (born 1980)

Estonia

Linnart Mäll

France

Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674–1743)
Arcade Huang (1679–1717)
Étienne Fourmont (1683–1745)
Jean Denis Attiret (1702–1768)
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–1793)
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832) – studied languages of the Far East and produced the Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises,^[1] and the Chinese novel Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois.
Stanislas Julien (1797–1873)
Séraphin Couvreur (1835–1919)
Léopold de Saussure (1886-1925)
Léon Wieger (1956–1933)
Édouard Chavannes (1865–1918) – best known for his 1) translations from Sima Qian's Shiji, sections of the Hou Hanshu, and the Weilüe 2) studies of Han dynasty stone carvings and Chinese religion, including the groundbreaking study of the worship of Mount Tai in ancient China. His students included Henri Maspero, Paul Pelliot and Marcel Granet.
Paul Pelliot (1878–1945)
Victor Segalen (1878–1919) – scholar of ancient Chinese sculpture.
Henri Maspero (1883–1945)
Paul Demiéville – studied the Franco-Belgian school of Buddhology. His 1947 work 'Mirror of the Mind' was widely read in the U.S. and inaugurated a series by him on subitism and gradualism.^[2]
Marcel Granet (1884–1940) – one of the first to use sociological methods.
Jean Escarra (1885–1955)
René Grousset (1885–1952)
Étienne Balázs (1905–1963)
Jacques Gernet (born 1921)
François Jullien (born 1951)
David Gosset (born 1970)

Germany

Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) – linguist; author of comprehensive Chinesische Grammatik.
Herbert Franke (1914–2011) – historian of Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties.
Emil Krebs (1867–1930) - Polyglot
Wolfgang Kubin (born 1945)
Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982)
Erling von Mende (born 1940)
Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 1930)
Rudolf G. Wagner (born 1941)
Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930) – his translations of the I Ching and other philosophical works popularized classical Chinese thought throughout the Western World.

Hungary

Étienne Balázs (1905–1963)
Imre Galambos (born 1967)
Imre Hamar (born 1968)
László Ladány (1914–1990)
Lajos Magyar (1891–1940)
Zsolt Tokaji (born 1971)

India

Ireland

Sean Hurley

Italy

Martino Martini (1614–1661)
Matteo Ricci (1552–1610)Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission.
Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607)Jesuit priest; one of the founding figures of the Jesuit Jesuit China Mission, co-author of the first Portuguese-Chinese dictionary, and can be described as the first European sinologist.
Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984)

Japan

Masaru Aoki 靑木正兒 (1887–1964)
Tetsuji Morohashi 諸橋轍次 (1883–1982)
A. Charles Muller
D. T. Suzuki 鈴木大拙 (1870–1966)
Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 (1866–1945)
Kōjirō Yoshikawa 吉川幸次郎; 18 March 1904 – 8 April 1980)
Yoshimi Takeuchi 竹內好 (1910–1977)
Naitō Torajirō 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934)

Kazakhstan

Yury Zuev (1932–2006)

Moldova

Nicolae Milescu – Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat who was named ambassador of the Russian Empire to Beijing in 1675. He submitted to the Foreign Ministry three volumes of notes of his travels through Siberia and China and later Travels through Siberia to the Chinese borders.

Netherlands

J.J.L. Duyvendak (1889–1954)
Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1854–11921), scholar of Chinese folk religion
Robert van Gulik (1910–1967)
Hans van de Ven

New Zealand

Rewi Alley

Norway

Henry Henne (1918–2002)

Poland

Michał Boym

Portugal

Gaspar da Cruz (c.1520–1570), the author of the first book on China in Western Europe
Bento de Góis (c.1562-1607), historian from China

Philippines

Alfredo Co

Russia

Andrey Davydov (1953)
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (1775–1853)
Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (1817–1878)
Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (1932–2013)
Peter A. Boodberg (1903–1972)
Julian Shchutsky (1897–1938)
Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev (1881–1951)
Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad (1891–1970)
Nikolai Fedorenko (1912-2000)
Vyacheslav Rybakov (1954)

Singapore

Wang Gungwu

Slovenia

Spain

Miguel de Benavides (c. 1552–1605)
Juan Cobo (Chinese: 高母羨; pinyin: Gāo Mǔxiàn) (c. 1546–1592).
Carmelo Elorduy (1901–1989)
Juan González de Mendoza (c. 1540–1617), compiler of one of the first European books about China

Sweden

Göran Malmqvist (simplified Chinese: 马悅然; traditional Chinese: 馬悅然; pinyin: Mǎ Yuèrán)
Johan Gunnar Andersson
Bernhard Karlgren (simplified Chinese: 高本汉; traditional Chinese: 高本漢; pinyin: Gāo Běnhàn) (1889–1978)

Switzerland

Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925)

Turkey

'Ali Akbar Khata'i, the author of an early book of China (completed in Istanbul in 1516)

United Kingdom

Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944)
Frederick W. Baller
Derek Bryan (1910–2003)
Craig Clunas
Mark Elvin
Bernhard Fuehrer
Herbert Giles (1845–1935)
Lionel Giles (1875–1958)
A.C. Graham (1919–1991)
David Hawkes (1923–2009)
Michel Hockx
Reginald Johnston (1874–1938)
James Legge (1815–1897), a missionary, the first professor of Chinese language at Oxford University, and with Max Müller prepared the 50 volume Sacred Books of the East.
Michael Loewe
Roderick MacFarquhar
Joseph Needham (1900–1995)
Jessica Rawson (born 1943)
William Edward Soothill (1861–1935)
Michael Sullivan (born 1916)
Paul Thompson (1931–2007)
Denis C. Twitchett (1925–2006)
Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895)
Andrew West (born 1960)
Arthur Waley (1889–1966)
Susan Whitfield
Endymion Wilkinson (born 1941)
Frances Wood

U.S.

References

↑ Kistner, Otto (1869). "Full title of Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises". Buddha and his doctrines: a bibliographical essay. London: Tübner & Co. p. 27.
↑ See Chan/Zen Studies in English: The State Of The Field by Bernard Faure