Henri Cordier

Henri Cordier (8 August 1849 – 16 March 1925) was a French linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, editor and Orientalist."Cordier," as the Bibliotheca Sinica "is sometimes affectionately referred to," is "the standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921.Endymion Wilkinson also praises Cordier for including the full titles, often the tables of contents, and reviews of most books.[5] Cordier was a founding editor of T'oung Pao, which was the first international journal of Chinese Studies.Along with Gustaaf Schlegel, he helped to establish the prominent sinological journal T'oung Pao in 1890.
Henri Cordier (mountaineer)Gustave CaillebotteNew Orleans, LouisianaUnited StatesParis, FrancelinguisthistorianethnographerauthoreditorOrientalistSociété de GéographieFrenchÉdouard ChavannesCollège ChaptalRoyal Asiatic SocietyNorth China Daily NewsInstitut national des langues et civilisations orientalesÉcole Libre des Sciences PolitiquesFondation Nationale des Sciences PolitiquesInstitut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisSinologyEndymion WilkinsonT'oung PaoChinese StudiesGustaaf SchlegelRoyal Geographical SocietyAcadémie des inscriptions et belles-lettresSociété AsiatiqueHenry YuleWayback Machinepublic domainPelliot, PaulWikisourceProject GutenbergInternet Archive