1. Stanislas Aignan Julien was a French sinologist who served as the Chair of Chinese at the College de France for over 40 years and was one of the most academically respected sinologists in French scholarship.
10 Facts About Stanislas Julien
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The quantity and quality of Stanislas Julien's scholarship earned him wide renown, and caused him to become the leading European scholar of China during the 19th century.
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Notwithstanding his academic rigor and gifted intellect, Stanislas Julien had a notoriously thorny personality and publicly feuded with most of his contemporaries, earning broad academic respect but equally broad personal dislike from those who knew him.
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Stanislas Julien studied at the college in Orleans before transferring to the College de France, where he initially focused on Greek language and literature before branching out into Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Sanskrit.
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Stanislas Julien attended the lectures of Jean-Pierre Abel-Remusat on Chinese.
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In late 1823 Stanislas Julien met Jean-Pierre Abel-Remusat, the first-ever professor of Chinese at the College de France, and began studying Chinese with him.
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In 1824, only six months after meeting Remusat, Stanislas Julien began a Latin translation of the Mencius, working from eight different Chinese editions and two Manchu editions, Stanislas Julien having simultaneously begun studying Manchu.
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Stanislas Julien published in 1841 Discussions grammaticales sur certaines regles de position qui, en chinois, jouent le meme role que les inflexions dans les autres langues, which he followed in 1842 by Exercices pratiques d'analyse, de syntaxe, et de lexigraphie chinoise.
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Stanislas Julien became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1857.
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In politics Stanislas Julien was imperialist, and in 1863 he was made a commander of the Legion d'honneur in recognition of the services he had rendered to literature during the Second French Empire.