Serge Elisséeff
| Serge Elisséeff | |||||||||||
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| Native name | Sergei Grigorievich Eliseyev | ||||||||||
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13 January 1889 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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| Died | 13 April 1975 (aged 86) Paris, France |
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| Citizenship | French (from 1931) | ||||||||||
| Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||
| Fields | Japanese studies | ||||||||||
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Petrograd Imperial University École pratique des hautes études La Sorbonne Harvard University |
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| Education |
University of Berlin Tokyo Imperial University |
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| Doctoral students | Edwin O. Reischauer | ||||||||||
| Other notable students | James Robert Hightower | ||||||||||
| Spouse | Vera Petrovna Eikhe (m. 1914-71, her death) | ||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 葉理綏 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶理绥 | ||||||||||
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| Kanji | 英利世夫 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yè Lǐsuī |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Yeh Liisuei |
| Wade–Giles | Yeh4 Li3-sui1 |
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| Romanization | Eiriseifu |
Serge Elisséeff (born Sergei Grigorievich Eliseyev; 13 January 1889 – 13 April 1975) was a Russian-French scholar and Japanologist who was one of the first Westerners to study Japanese at a university in Japan. He began studying Japanese at the University of Berlin, then transferred to Tokyo Imperial University (modern University of Tokyo) in 1912, becoming the first Westerner to graduate in Japanese as well as its first Western graduate student.
Elisséeff served in 1916 as Privat-Dozent at Petrograd Imperial University (modern Saint Petersburg State University), and in 1917 as Professor in the Institute for the History of Foreign Affairs in Petrograd. Many years later, his émigrée memories of chaos and fear during the Russian Revolution were stirred by the effects of pernicious McCarthyism at Harvard.
Fluent in eight languages, including Chinese and Japanese, Elisséeff was one of the foremost Japanologists of his time, both in the West and in Japan. The American Japanologist Edwin O. Reischauer, who was one of Elisséeff's students, wrote that "perhaps no one better deserves the title of Father of Far Eastern Studies in the United States." He had close personal ties to many of the greatest Japanese literary names of the early 20th century and wrote occasional articles for the Asahi Shimbun.
Serge Elisséeff was born "Sergei Grigorievich Eliseyev" (Russian: Сергей Григорьевич Елисеев) on 13 January 1889 in St. Petersburg. Elisséeff's great-grandfather, Pyotr Eliseyev (1775–1825), was a gardener in serfdom to the Sheremetev family who started a wine and fruit import business that later became a large economic empire. Elisséeff's father, Grigori Eliseyev (1858–1949), inherited the family business, and was one of the builders of the Eliseyev Emporium in St. Petersburg.
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