Julian Konstantinovich Shchutsky was a Russian sinologist.
10 Facts About Julian Shchutsky
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Julian Shchutsky graduated from Saint Petersburg University in 1921 and was a research scientist in the Asiatic Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1920 to 1937.
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Julian Shchutsky was given bibliographical responsibility for the Taoism and Chinese alchemy portions of the museum's new acquisitions.
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Julian Shchutsky completed extensive translations from late Tang dynasty poetry, a field in which Vasily Mikhaylovich Alekseyev had worked; some of the translations were published under Alekseyev's editorship in 1923.
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Julian Shchutsky published more than 30 scientific research papers and books.
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Julian Shchutsky was a polyglot, and translated from more than 16 languages.
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Julian Shchutsky was arrested in February 1938, during the Great Purge.
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Julian Shchutsky was convicted by a list trial as a "Japanese spy" and executed.
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Julian Shchutsky was influenced by his teachers, the sinologists Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad and Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev.
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Julian Shchutsky was close friends with the poet Cherubina de Gabriak; she influenced his ideology.