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Legge, James

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A Chinese scholar, born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire; studied at King's College, Aberdeen; was sent out as missionary to the Chinese by the London Missionary Society in 1839, laboured for 30 years at Hong-Kong, and became professor of the Chinese Language and Literature at Oxford in 1876; edited with a translation and notes the Chinese classics, the "four Shu ," and the "five King ," and gave lectures on the religions of China as compared with Christianity; b . 1815.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Legge, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​l/legge-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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