Antoine Bazin | |
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Born | Antoine-Pierre-Louis Bazin 26 March 1799 |
Died | January 1863 |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | sinologist |
Antoine-Pierre-Louis Bazin, or A. P. L. Bazin (26 March 1799 – January 1863) was a French sinologist born in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt. He was the brother of dermatologist Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878).[1]
Bazin studied at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832) and Stanislas Julien (1797-1873). Beginning in 1840 he was a professor of Chinese at the École des langues orientales.[2] During his career, he also served as assistant director of the Société Asiatique.[3] He contributed numerous articles to the Journal asiatique and published translations of Yuan dynasty plays.[4]