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Paul Pelliot
Paul Pelliot
Born(1878-05-28)28 May 1878
Paris, France
Died26 October 1945(1945-10-26) (aged 67)
Paris, France
Known forDunhuang manuscripts discovery
Scientific career
FieldsChinese history
InstitutionsCollège de France
École Française d'Extrême-Orient
Academic advisorsÉdouard Chavannes
Sylvain Lévi
Notable studentsPaul Demiéville
Chinese name
Chinese伯希和

Paul Eugène Pelliot[1] (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and acquirement of many important Chinese texts such as the Dunhuang manuscripts.

  1. ^ Name as given in the Legion d'honneur recipient database

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Paul Pelliot

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Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and acquirement...

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Dunhuang manuscripts

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explorers, such as Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot. Knowing that the Dunhuang manuscripts were priceless treasures, Stein and Pelliot swindled Wang and bought them...

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Marco Polo

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translation by Henry Yule. The 1938 English translation by A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot is based on a Latin manuscript found in the library of the Cathedral...

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Asbestos

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2011. Polo, Marco; A C. Moule; Paul Pelliot (1938). Marco Polo: the Description of the World: A.C. Moule & Paul Pelliot. G. Routledge & Sons. pp. 156–57...

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Terra Australis

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Royal Asiatic Society, Asiatic Society Monographs vol.1, 1909, p. 180. Paul Pelliot, Notes on Marco Polo, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1963, Vol.II, pp. 768–9...

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Chenla

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Paul (1970). "Thala Bŏrivăt ou Stu'ṅ Trèṅ: sites de la capitale du souverain khmer Bhavavarman Ier". Journal Asiatique. 258: 113–129. Pelliot, Paul (1903)...

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Tuyuhun language

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a Para-Mongolic language. Tuyuhun had previously been identified by Paul Pelliot (1921) as a Mongolic language. Shimunek (2017) reconstructs some Tuyuhun...

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The Travels of Marco Polo

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translation of 1503 (the first version in that language). A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot published a translation under the title Description of the World that...

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Manichaeism

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a facsimile by Edouard Chavannes (q.v.) and Paul Pelliot in 1911 and is frequently known as Traité Pelliot. Their transcription (including typographical...

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Western Paradise Illustration

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after death. On February 24, 1908, French photographer Charles Nouette, Paul Pelliot and two other French expedition teams first took images of Mogao Cave...

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Sumpa

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the southern Tarim Basin. "Note sur les T’ou-yu-houen et les Sou-p’i." Paul Pelliot. T’oung pao, 20 (1921), pp. 330-331. Empires of the Silk Road: A History...

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Jave la Grande

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(Zhou Daguan, fl.1297), Customs of Cambodia 風土記 , transl. Paul Pelliot and J. Gilman d'Arcy Paul, Bangkok, Siam Society, 1993, p. 2. Chou Ta-kuan 周達観 (Zhou...

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Tuyuhun

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Press, 2001 pp.130-131. "Note sur les T’ou-yu-houen et les Sou-p’i." Paul Pelliot. T’oung pao, 20 (1921), p. 323. Zhou, Weizhou [周伟洲] (1985). The Tuyühu...

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Taklamakan Desert

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vividly described by Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq, and Paul Pelliot. Mummies, some 4000 years old, have been found in the region. Later,...

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Ma Huan

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who have done research work on Ma Huan are J.J.L. Duyvendak, F. Hirth, Paul Pelliot, Feng Chengjun, Xiang Da, J.V.G. Mills. Fei Xin, another participants...

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Genghis Khan

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Yuan and the Shengwu favour the year 1162. The 1167 dating, favoured by Paul Pelliot, is derived from a minor source—a text of the Yuan artist Yang Weizhen—but...

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Bai Ze

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the Bái Zé Tú. One of the Dunhuang manuscripts discovered by French Sinologist Paul Pelliot, currently located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France....

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International Dunhuang Project

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Persian and Uyghur manuscripts, is now held by the British Library. Paul Pelliot (1878–1945) led an expedition to Kucha and Dunhuang between 1906 and...

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Sutra of the Great Virtue of Wisdom

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was brought to Europe by Paul Pelliot (1878–1945), and it is now housed at the National Library of France in Paris. Pelliot chinois 4504. International...

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List of French explorers

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Édouard-Alfred Martel (Caves) Théodore Monod (Sahara) Paul Pelliot (Central Asia) Haroun Tazieff (Volcanos and caves) Paul-Émile Victor (Arctic, Antarctic) List of...

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Papercutting

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One of the earliest known papercuts, this specimen was recovered by Paul Pelliot in the Dunhuang grotto and is dated to the tenth century. Bibliothèque...

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Borjigin

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brother Daritai, and nephew Onggur formed the Borjigid. According to Paul Pelliot and Louis Hambis, Rashid al-Din Hamadani once explained that "borčïqïn"...

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Compass

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translated into English from the French version by Paul Pelliot of Zhou's Chinese original by J. Gilman d'Arcy Paul, Phnom Penh : Indochina Books, prev publ. by...

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Nogai Khan

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Nogai was also a notable convert to Islam in 1271. French historian Paul Pelliot wrote that Nokhai meant "dog". Although in the Mongolian language, "nokhoi"...

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Kublai Khan

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The Magic Square. p. 291. Lall, Kesar. A Nepalese Miscellany. p. 32. Paul Pelliot, Notes on Marco Polo, p. 85 Anne Elizabeth McLaren, Chinese popular culture...

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List of sinologists

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ancient China. His students included Henri Maspero, Paul Pelliot and Marcel Granet. Paul Pelliot (1878–1945) Victor Segalen (1878–1919) – scholar of ancient...

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Han Chinese

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17th century by Martino Martini and supported by later scholars such as Paul Pelliot and Berthold Laufer to be the etymological origin of the modern English...

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Yenisei Kyrgyz

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serious attempt to explain these forms seems still to be that of Paul Pelliot in 1920. Pelliot suggested that Middle Chinese -t stands for Turkic -z, which...

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