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  1. Heinrich Julius Klaproth (11 October 178328 August 1835) was a German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, orientalist and explorer. As a scholar, he is credited along with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat , with being instrumental in turning East Asian Studies into scientific disciplines with critical methods.

  2. Julius Heinrich Klaproth (born Oct. 11, 1783, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died Aug. 28, 1835, Paris, France) was a German Orientalist and explorer whose major work, Asia polyglotta nebst Sprachatlas (1823; “Asia Polyglotta with Language Atlas”), is one of the important early surveys of Oriental languages, notably the Caucasian languages ...

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  3. Klaproth (17431817), the owner of the pharmacy The White Swan in Berlin and member of the Academy of Sciences, an outstanding scientist – he discovered no less than four chemical elements, among them uranium.

  4. Heinrich Julius Klaproth (11 October 1783 – 28 August 1835) was a German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, orientalist and explorer. As a scholar, he is credited along with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, with being instrumental in turning East Asian Studies into scientific disciplines with critical methods.

  5. Julius Klaproth was a German orientalist, traveler, and polyglot. He showed remarkable language abilities at a young age, and in 1802, his first work Asiatisches Magazin was published.

  6. Heinrich Julius Klaproth (October 11, 1783 - August 28, 1835), also as von Klaproth, was a German linguist and Orientalist who helped develop the academic field of East Asian Studies.

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  8. Feb 16, 2017 · KLAPROTH, Heinrich Julius von. Berlin 11.10.1783 — Paris 28.8.1835. German Oriental Scholar in Russia and France. Son of the mineralogist and chemist Martin-Heinrich Kl. and Christine Sophie Lehmann (d. 1803). Gymnasium in Berlin. As a fifteen years old schoolboy he started the study of Chinese from Bayer’s book.

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