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Gustav Haloun

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Gustav Haloun (January 12, 1898, Brtnice, Moravia, Austrian Empire — December 24, 1951, Cambridge, England) was a Czech Sinologist. He taught at Prague University (1926-1927), Halle University (1928-1931), and Göttingen University (1931-1938), before becoming Chair of Chinese at Cambridge University.

He researched about the Hundred Schools of Thought, Bactria, Da Yuezhi, and Guanzi texts (cf.Guan Zhong).

Haloun's papers are held at Cambridge University Library.

Further reading

  • Ceadel, E. B., 'Published works of the late Professor Gustav Haloun', Asia Major 3:1 (1953)
  • Honey, David B., Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, 2001, pp. 152-66.

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