Ji Xianlin
| Ji Xianlin | |
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Ji Xianlin at his graduation from Tsinghua University in 1934
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| Born |
August 6, 1911 Linqing, Shandong, Qing Dynasty |
| Died | July 11, 2009 (aged 97) Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Occupation | linguist, paleographer, historian, writer |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Children | Ji Cheng [1] |
Ji Xianlin (Chinese: 季羡林; pinyin: Jì Xiànlín; August 6, 1911 – July 11, 2009) was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian, and writer who had been honored by the governments of both India and China. He was born in Qingping County (now Linqing) and died in the No. 301 Hospital, Beijing.
Ji is most well known for his memoir, The Cowshed, about his persecution as an intellectual during the Cultural Revolution in China.
Ji attended Sanhejie Primary School and the No. 1 Middle School in Jinan, then Shandong University. In 1930, he was admitted to Tsinghua University as a major in Western literature. In 1935, he went to University of Göttingen as an exchange student, choosing in 1936 to major in Sanskrit and less well known ancient languages, such as Pali, under Professor Ernst Waldschmidt.
Ji received his Ph.D. in 1941, and then studied under Emil Sieg. In 1946, he returned to China, becoming a professor at Peking University under the recommendation of Chen Yinke, and began a long career as one of China's most well-known scholars of ancient Indian languages and culture.
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