Gustaaf Schlegel
Gustaaf Schlegel was a Dutch sinologist and field naturalist.
Gustaaf Schlegel was born onSeptember 1840 in Oegstgeest. The son of Hermann Schlegela native of Saxony who had moved to the Netherlands in 1827 to work at the natural history museum of Leiden and became its second directorGustaaf begun to study Chinese at the age ofwith Leiden japanologist J. J. Hoffmann initially, it seems, without the knowledge of his parents. Gustaaf made his first trip to China in 1857 in order to collect bird specimens, but his notoriety as naturalist was overshadowed by that of Robert Swinhoe who completed much field work in China ahead of Schlegel.
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