# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-giles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:18:12.861Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-giles"
name: "Herbert Giles"
slug: "herbert-giles"
description: "Herbert Allen Giles was a British diplomat and sinologist who held the Professorship of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanization system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Giles Chinese romanization system. Among his many works were translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Lao Tzu , the Chuang Tzu, and, in 1892, the widely published A Chinese–English Dictionary."
tagline: "British sinologist and diplomat (1845–1935)"
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  isoCode: "GB"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1845-12-08"
deathDate: "1935-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump