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Herbert Giles

1845 - 1935

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Herbert Allen Giles (Chinese: 翟理斯, romanized: Zhái Lǐsī; 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanization system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Giles Chinese romanization system. Among his many works were translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching), the Chuang Tzu, and, in 1892, the widely published A Chinese–English Dictionary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Giles is the 813th most popular biologist (up from 830th in 2019), the 3,656th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,055th in 2019) and the 119th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Giles ranks 813 out of 1,097. Before him are Giacomo Bresadola, Johann Jacob Dillenius, Jules Pierre Rambur, Aimée Antoinette Camus, William Thomas Blanford, and João Barbosa Rodrigues. After him are Mary-Claire King, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Heinrich Göppert, André Thouin, Charlotte Auerbach, and Gustav Lindau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Herbert Giles ranks 90. Before him are Edward Douglass White, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Ragna Nielsen, Edmund Reitter, José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. After him are Archibald Sayce, Hermann Bollé, Facundo Machaín, George Kennan, Johann Berger, and William Christie. Among people deceased in 1935, Herbert Giles ranks 119. Before him are Childe Hassam, Tryggvi Þórhallsson, Will Rogers, Harald Sohlberg, Milman Parry, and Alfred Roller. After him are Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Francisco Cepeda, John Hartley, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Aimé Haegeman, and Johan Ramstedt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Giles ranks 3,657 out of 8,785. Before him are William Thomas Blanford (1832), Isaac Watts (1674), William Hopkins (1793), Diana Dors (1931), Dave Davies (1947), and Harry Patch (1898). After him are Robin Dunbar (1947), Joe Alwyn (1991), Thomas Digges (1546), Billy Bremner (1942), Siouxsie Sioux (1957), and Joseph Cook (1860).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Herbert Giles ranks 119. Before him are Mary F. Lyon (1925), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Lilian Gibbs (1870), and William Thomas Blanford (1832). After him are John Abbot (1751), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), John Gerard (1545), Osbert Salvin (1835), William Kirby (1759), and John Hutton Balfour (1808).

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