{"name": "Joseph Edkins", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "[English] Joseph Edkins (b. 1823 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England; d. 1905 in Shanghai, Kiangsu, China) was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing (Peking). As a Sinologue, he specialized in Chinese religions. Edkins was also a linguist, a translator, and a philologist. He wrote many books about the Chinese language and the Chinese religions especially Buddhism.\r\n\r\n[Deutsch] Joseph Edkins (* 1823 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England; \u2020 1905 in Shanghai, Kiangsu, China) war ein britischer protestantischer Missionar, der 57 Jahre in China, davon 30 in Beijing (Peking) verbrachte. Als Sinologe war er spezialisiert auf chinesische Religionen. Edkins war auch Sprachwissenschaftler, \u00dcbersetzer und Philologe. Er schrieb viele B\u00fccher \u00fcber die chinesische Sprache und die chinesischen Religionen, insbesondere den Buddhismus."}, "links": [{"url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Edkins", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Wikipedia (English)"}], "personal_name": "Edkins, Joseph", "death_date": "23 April 1905", "alternate_names": ["Rev. Dr. Joseph Edkins", "Joseph. Edkins", "J. Edkins"], "photos": [6681767], "birth_date": "19 December 1823", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "51785416", "wikidata": "Q838073", "isni": "0000000081302772", "lc_naf": "n79138620", "project_gutenberg": "51786", "opac_sbn": "LO1V251752"}, "key": "/authors/OL1255210A", "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T17:50:46.737013"}}