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Isaac Jacob Schmidt

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Gender Male
Death176 years ago
Date of birth October 14,1779
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Amsterdam
Netherlands
Date of died August 27,1847
DiedSaint Petersburg
Russia
BooksAnother Tract for the Buryats: With I. J. Schmidt's Recently Identified Kalmuck Originals
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job Translator
Missionary
Writer
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Isaac Jacob Schmidt Life story


Isaac Jacob Schmidt was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labours to Bible translation. Born in Amsterdam, he spent much of his career in St. Petersburg as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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