# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-edkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:19:14.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-edkins"
name: "Joseph Edkins"
slug: "joseph-edkins"
description: "Joseph Edkins was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. As a Sinologue, he specialised in Chinese religions. He was also a linguist, a translator, and a philologist. Writing prolifically, he penned many books about the Chinese language and the Chinese religions especially Buddhism. In his China's Place in Philology (1871), he tries to show that the languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin by comparing the Chinese and Indo-European vocabulary."
tagline: "British missionary and linguist (1823–1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Edkins.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1823-12-19"
deathDate: "1905-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.880454666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "چوزيف ادكينس"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Edkins"
    title: "Joseph Edkins"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Edkins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump