# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seraphin-couvreur
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:10:49.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seraphin-couvreur"
name: "Séraphin Couvreur"
slug: "seraphin-couvreur"
description: "Séraphin Couvreur was a French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist, and translator. He was also the creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription. The system devised by Couvreur of the École française d'Extrême-Orient was used in most of the French-speaking world to transliterate Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, after what it was gradually replaced by pinyin."
tagline: "French Jesuit missionary and sinologist (1835–1919)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1835-01-14"
deathDate: "1919-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.873830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%BE%E8%B5%9B%E8%8A%AC"
    title: "顾赛芬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "سيرافين كوڤريور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphin_Couvreur"
    title: "Séraphin Couvreur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphin_Couvreur"
    title: "Séraphin Couvreur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphin_Couvreur"
    title: "Séraphin Couvreur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphin_Couvreur"
    title: "Séraphin Couvreur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphin_Couvreur"
    title: "Séraphin Couvreur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%80%D1%91%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Куврёр, Серафин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphin_Couvreur"
    title: "Séraphin Couvreur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump