# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/serge-elisseeff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:54:16.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/serge-elisseeff"
name: "Serge Elisséeff"
slug: "serge-elisseeff"
description: "Serge Elisséeff was a Russian-French scholar, Japanologist, and professor at Harvard University. He was one of the first Westerners to study Japanese at a university in Japan. He began studying Japanese at the University of Berlin, then transferred to Tokyo Imperial University in 1912, becoming the first Westerner to graduate from there in Japanese and was its first Western graduate student."
tagline: "French academic (1889–1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Serge_Eliss%C3%A9eff.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1889-01-13"
deathDate: "1975-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.4225
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "سيرج اليسيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Elisseeff"
    title: "Serge Elisseeff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Eliss%C3%A9eff"
    title: "Serge Elisséeff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Elisseeff"
    title: "Serge Elisseeff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szergej_Grigorjevics_Jeliszejev"
    title: "Szergej Grigorjevics Jeliszejev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%95"
    title: "セルゲイ・エリセーエフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Eliss%C3%A9eff"
    title: "Serge Elisséeff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Елисеев, Сергей Григорьевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%84%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%94%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Єлисеєв Сергій Григорович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B6%E7%90%86%E7%BB%A5"
    title: "叶理绥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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