Séraphin Couvreur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French missionary
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Place of Birth: Varennes, Hauts-de-France, France
About Séraphin Couvreur
- Séraphin Couvreur (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Gù Sàifen; 14 January 1835 – 19 November 1919) was a French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist, and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription.
- The system devised by Couvreur of the École française d'Extrême-Orient was used in most of the French-speaking world to transliterate Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, after what it was gradually replaced by pinyin.
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