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Apr 04, 1814 Straličava, Belarus Died on 05 Oct 1875 (aged 61)
Belarus orientalist and diplomat
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About Iosif Goshkevich
- Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich (Russian: ????? ????????? ????????, 1814, in Minsk Governorate – May 3, 1875) was an Imperial Russian diplomat and Orientalist of Belarusian descent.
- He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (1839) and in 1839–48 amounted to Russian clerical legation in Beijing.
- In 1853–55 he was an interpreter from Chinese in Yefim Putyatin's embassy in Japan.
- In 1856–58 Goshkevich served in Asiatic department of Russian MFA.
- Jointly with one Japanese Goshkevich compiled the first Japanese-Russian dictionary (published in Saint Petersburg in 1857).
- Goshkevich also became the first Russian diplomatic representative in Japan (1858–65).
- He wrote several works about China, Japan and on peculiarities of Japanese and Chinese languages.
