Basil Hall Chamberlain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Basil Hall Chamberlain

British academic

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1850

Place of Birth: Southsea, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1935

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher, academic

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Basil Hall Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century.
(Others included Ernest Satow and W.
G.
Aston.) He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English.
He is perhaps best remembered for his informal and popular one-volume encyclopedia Things Japanese, which first appeared in 1890 and which he revised several times thereafter.
His interests were diverse, and his works include an anthology of poetry in French.