| LC control no. | n 80132205 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hepburn, J. C. (James Curtis), 1815-1911 |
| Variant(s) | Hebon, 1815-1911 Hepburn, James Curtis, 1815-1911 Hepburn, James C. (James Curtis), 1815-1911 Hepburn, James (James Curtis), 1815-1911 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1815-03-13 |
| Death date | 1911-09-21 |
| Place of birth | Milton (Northumberland County, Pa.) |
| Place of death | East Orange (N.J.) |
| Field of activity | Missions, Medical Ophthalmology Lexicography Translating and interpreting Medicine Education |
| Affiliation | Princeton University University of Pennsylvania |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries, Medical Ophthalmologists Lexicographers Translators Physicians Educators |
| Found in | His A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary ... 1888. Hebon, 1986: t.p. ([in kana]) p. 3, etc. (Dr. J.C. Hepburn; b. Mar. 13, 1815; d. Sept. 21, 1911) American national biography (Online), Oct. 9, 2001 (Hepburn, James Curtis; medical missionary, oculist, and lexicographer) Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 15, 2023: James Curtis Hepburn (James Curtis Hepburn (March 13, 1815 - September 21, 1911) was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese-English dictionary. Hepburn was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1815. He attended Princeton University, earned a master's degree, after which he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his M.D. degree in 1836, and became a physician. He decided to go to China as a medical missionary, but had to stay in Singapore for two years because the Opium War was under way and Chinese ports were closed to foreigners. After five years as a missionary, he returned to the United States in 1845 and opened a medical practice in New York City. He died on September 21, 1911, in East Orange, New Jersey, at the age of 96. He is interred in Orange's Rosedale Cemetery.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Curtis_Hepburn> |
| Associated language | eng |
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