Henri Cordier
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Paris, France
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Henri Cordier (8 August 184916 March 1925) was a French
linguist,
historian,
ethnographer,
author,
editor and
Orientalist. He was President of the
Société de Géographie (
French, "Geographical Society") in Paris. Cordier was a prominent figure in the development of East Asian and Central Asian scholarship in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century. Though he had little actual knowledge of the Chinese language, Cordier had a particularly strong impact on the development of Chinese scholarship, and was a mentor of the noted French sinologist
Édouard Chavannes.
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