Quotes:Legge, James

Zirkoff, Boris

Legge, James. British Chinese scholar, b. at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, in 1815; d. at Oxford, Nov. 29, 1897. Educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, and at Highbury Theological College, London. Started for China, 1839, as a missionary, but instead remained for three years teaching in the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca until it was removed to Hong Kong. There he lived for thirty years, and worked on his monumental edition of the Chinese Classics. In 1876 a chair of Chinese languages and literature was constituted at Oxford for his occupation. Consult his works in the Sacred Books of the East, Vols. HI, XVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXXIX and XL. Vol. XVI contains his tr. of the *I Ching or Book of Changes.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 655