Paul Pelliot | |||||||||||
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![]() Paul Pelliot | |||||||||||
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Died | 26 October 1945 Paris, France | (aged 67)||||||||||
Known for | Dunhuang manuscripts discovery | ||||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||||
Fields | Chinese history | ||||||||||
Institutions | Collège de France École Française d'Extrême-Orient | ||||||||||
Academic advisors | Édouard Chavannes Sylvain Lévi | ||||||||||
Notable students | Paul Demiéville | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Chinese | 伯希和 | ||||||||||
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Paul Eugène Pelliot[1] (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.