Xu Fancheng, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Xu Fancheng

Scholar, poet and artist

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1909

Date of Death: 06-Mar-2000

Profession: translator

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Xu Fancheng (Chinese: ???), Courtesy name Jihai (Chinese: ??) (26 October 1909, Changsha - 6 March 2000, Beijing), also known as Hu Hsu and F.C.
Hsu in India, was a Chinese scholar and translator, indologist and philosopher.
He translated 50 of the Upanishads into classical Chinese.
He also translated Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra, Kalidasa's lyric poem Meghaduuta (Cloud Messenger), and several of Sri Aurobindo's works into Chinese.
He was familiar with Greek, Latin, English, French, as well as Sanskrit and German.
A 16-volume edition of his complete works was published in 2006.