Quotes:Klaproth, Heinrich Julius

Zirkoff, Boris

Klaproth, Heinrich Julius. German Orientalist and traveller, b. in Berlin, Oct. 11, 1783; d. in Paris, Aug. 28, 1835. As a young man, received an appointment in the St. Petersburg Academy and in 1805 accompanied Count Golovkin on an embassy 441 to China. Upon his return, was dispatched by the Academy to the Caucasus on an ethnographical and linguistic exploration, 1807-08, and was later employed for a number of years in connection with the Academy’s Oriental publications. Moved to Berlin, 1812; settled in Paris, 1815. A year later, Humboldt procured him from King of Prussia the title and salary of professor of Asiatic languages and literature. Chief works: Asia polyglotta, Paris, 1823 and 1831, his most important work which formed a new departure for the classification of the Eastern languages.—Tableaux historiques de l’Asie, Paris, 1826.—Reise in den Kaukasus und Georgien, etc., Halle, 1812-14.—Mémoires relatifs à l’Asie, Paris, 1824-28.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, pp. 440-441