List of Famous people with last name Abel-remusat
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat
First Name Jean-Pierre
Last Name Abel-Rémusat
Born on September 5, 1788
Born in France, Île-de-France
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat was a French sinologist best known as the first Chair of Sinology at the Collège de France. Rémusat studied medicine as a young man, but his discovery of a Chinese herbal treatise enamored him with the Chinese language, and he spent five years teaching himself to read it. After publishing several well-received articles on Chinese topics, a chair in Chinese was created at the Collège de France in 1814 and Rémusat was placed in it.
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