Antoine Bazin

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).

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''. During his career, he also served as assistant director of the ''Société Asiatique''. He contributed numerous articles to the ''Journal asiatique'' and published translations of Yuan dynasty plays. Provided by Wikipedia