Hyacinth (Bichurin), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Hyacinth (Bichurin)

Russian sinologist, historian, translator, eastern orthodox missionary

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1777

Date of Death: 11-May-1853

Profession: priest, historian, missionary, geographer, explorer, sinologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (?????? ????????? ???????) (August 29, 1777 – May 11, 1853), better known under his monastic name Hyacinth, or Iakinf (??????), was one of the founding fathers of Sinology.
He was born to a family of half-Russian half-Chuvash father and Russian mother.
He studied in the Kazan seminary.