Albert Terrien de Lacouperie
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Albert Étienne Jean-Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (23 November 1844 – 11 October 1894)[2][3] was a French orientalist, specialising in comparative philology. He published a number of books on early Asian and Middle-Eastern languages, initially in French and then in English. Lacouperie is best known for his studies of the Yi Ching and his argument, known as Sino-Babylonianism, that the important elements of ancient civilization in ancient China came from Mesopotamia and that there were resemblances between Chinese characters and Akkadian hieroglyphics.
Albert Terrien de Lacouperie | |
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Born | Albert Étienne Jean-Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie 23 November 1844[1][2] |
Died | 11 October 1894(1894-10-11) (aged 49)[3] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Oriental studies, specialising in philology |
The American sinologist E. Bruce Brooks writes that Lacouperie "gained a sufficiently accurate view of the Spring and Autumn period that he realized, half a century before Chyen Mu and Owen Lattimore, that the 'Chinese' territory of that period was in fact honeycombed with non-Sinitic peoples and even states." Brooks concluded that the "whole trend of Lacouperie's thought still provokes a collective allergic reaction in Sinology and its neighbor sciences; only now are some of the larger questions he raised, and doubtless mishandled, coming to be hesitantly askable."[4]