Hilarion Kalinovich Rossokhin or Rassokhin (1707 or 1717 - 1761) - Russian Sinologist , translator from Chinese.
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Biography
Consisted of the Russian Beijing mission to study the languages of Chinese, Mongolian and Manchurian and to translate documents. Arriving in St. Petersburg (c. 1745), Rossokhin was appointed translator at the Academy of Sciences and a teacher of oriental languages at an academic gymnasium. Here he, together with Leontyev, translated several Chinese and Manchu books into Russian, including Conversations and Manjurian Stories, which remained unprinted. He published in Miller's Monthly Works for 1761 amendments to Dugald's news of the Chinese silk industry and several other articles.
Source
- Rassokhin, Hilarion Kalinovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Rossokhin Hilarion Kalinovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- Taranovich V.P., I. Rossokhin and his works on Sinology, in collection: Soviet Oriental Studies, c. 3, M. - L., 1945;
- Strenina A. V., At the origins of Russian and world Sinology, “Soviet Ethnography”, 1950, No. 1;
- Skachkov P.E., On the unknown manuscripts of Larion Rossokhin, "Peoples of Asia and Africa", 1965, No. 1.