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Paul Pelliot
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- Born
- 1878
- Died
- 1945
- Works
- 61
Top works
- Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits et imprimés chinois de la Bibliothèque vaticane
- Le Hōǰa et le Sayyid Husain de l'histoire des Ming
- Les Influences européennes sur la̕rt chinois
- 敦煌石窟
- Le Chou king en caractères anciens et Le Chang chou che wen
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1878-05-28 ) 28 May 1878, Paris, France
- Died
- 26 October 1945 (1945-10-26) (aged 67), Paris, France
- Known for
- Dunhuang manuscripts discovery
- Fields
- Chinese history
- Institutions
- Collège de France , École Française d'Extrême-Orient
- Academic advisors
- Édouard Chavannes , Sylvain Lévi
- Notable students
- Paul Demiéville
- Chinese
- 伯希和
- Hanyu pinyin
- Bó Xīhé
- Gwoyeu romatzyh
- Bor Shiher
- Wade giles
- Po Hsi -he
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eugène
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- art collector
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Marie-Jean-Léon d'Hervey de Saint Denys
- Field of work
- oriental studies
- Image
- Pelliotpaul.jpg
- Residence
- France
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- Commons category
- Paul Pelliot
- date of birth
- 1878-05-28
- date of death
- 1945-10-26
- member of
- Académie des sciences d'outre-mer
- birth name
- Paul Eugène Pelliot
- name in native language
- Paul Pelliot
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- archives at
- Collège de France
- writing language
- French
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.
A hyperpolyglot, he spoke 13 Oriental languages, including among others Mandarin and Cantonese, Turkish, Russian, Mongolian, Hebrew, Uzbek, Pashto, and Tagalog, as well as Sanskrit, and even rarer languages such as Uyghur, and the extinct languages Sogdian and Tocharian.
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