Maxime Kaltenmark

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| birth_date = 11 November 1910

| birth_place = Vienna

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| death_place = Laval, Quebec

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Max Kaltenmark (11 November 1910 – 26 June 2002) was a French sinologist, of Austrian origin.[http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/maxime-kaltenmark « Kaltenmark, Maxime - (1910-2002) »], Encyclopædia universalis.

Between 1949 and 1953, he was director of the "Centre d'études sinologiques de Pékin" of the École française d'Extrême-Orient. He later was directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris until 1979.

Selected works

  • 1953: Le Lie-Sien Tchouan : biographies légendaires des immortels taoïstes de l'antiquité
  • 1965: Lao Tseu et le taoïsme
  • 1972: La Philosophie chinoise (Que sais-je?).

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