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James Legge

1815 - 1897

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James Legge (; 20 December 1815 – 29 November 1897) was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840–1873) and was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876–1897). In association with Max Müller he prepared the monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published in 50 volumes between 1879 and 1891. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Legge is the 131st most popular linguist (up from 133rd in 2019), the 3,235th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,064th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, James Legge ranks 131 out of 214. Before him are Felix Jacoby, Hrachia Acharian, Hans Ørberg, Igor M. Diakonoff, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda. After him are Aleksander Brückner, Vasily Abaev, Hermann Osthoff, Alexander Potebnja, Julius Pokorny, and Sylvain Lévi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, James Legge ranks 62. Before him are Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Edward Forbes, Marguerite Bays, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, and Henry Halleck. After him are Pavel Fedotov, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Emanuel Geibel, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, and Ernest Goüin. Among people deceased in 1897, James Legge ranks 61. Before him are Édouard Deldevez, Japetus Steenstrup, Alvan Graham Clark, Jules de Burlet, William Henry Conley, and Heinrich von Stephan. After him are Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Aleko Konstantinov, Willem Roelofs, Gotō Shōjirō, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, and Mutsu Munemitsu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Legge ranks 3,236 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Dadd (1817), John Pond (1767), Justin Welby (1956), Richard Cobden (1804), Jimmy Bain (1947), and Nobby Stiles (1942). After him are Ida of Bernicia (450), Ralph Erskine (1914), Michael Berry (1941), Alan White (1949), Mark Sheppard (1964), and Andrea Arnold (1961).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, James Legge ranks 9. Before him are Robert Morrison (1782), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), Daniel Jones (1881), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Chadwick (1920), and John Florio (1553). After him are Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), Henry Sweet (1845), Henry Liddell (1811), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), and Alexander Melville Bell (1819).

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