James Curtis Hepburn

American physician, educator and phonologist (1815–1911)

James Curtis Hepburn (March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary.

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