William Woodville Rockhill

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/William_Woodville_Rockhill

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:ambassadorTo	gptkb:China gptkb:Mexico gptkb:Russia
gptkbp:awardReceived	gptkb:Royal_Geographical_Society's_Founder's_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate	1854-05-01
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_United_States
gptkbp:deathDate	1914-12-08
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Hermosillo,_Mexico
gptkbp:education	gptkb:École_spéciale_militaire_de_Saint-Cyr
gptkbp:explores	gptkb:China gptkb:Mongolia gptkb:Tibet
gptkbp:fieldOfWork	gptkb:explorer diplomacy translator Asian studies Tibetan studies
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	William Woodville Rockhill
gptkbp:influenced	U.S. policy on Tibet
gptkbp:influencedBy	French Orientalist studies
gptkbp:knownFor	Rockhill policy on Tibet negotiations with the Dalai Lama first American to learn to speak, read, and write Tibetan fluently
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Chinese gptkb:French gptkb:Tibetan English
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableWork	Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892 The Land of the Lamas The Life of the Buddha and the Early History of His Order
gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:diplomat gptkb:explorer author sinologist
gptkbp:parent	Dorothea Anne Woodville Thomas Cadwalader Rockhill
gptkbp:servedAs	gptkb:U.S._Ambassador_to_Mexico U.S. Minister to China U.S. Ambassador to Russia U.S. Minister to Greece, Serbia, and Romania
gptkbp:spouse	Edith Rockhill
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Robert_Sanderson_McCormick gptkb:Mongolia,_the_Tangut_Country_and_the_Solitudes_of_Northern_Tibet
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7