Alexander von Staël-Holstein

Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Staël von Holstein (Chinese: 鋼和泰, 20 December 1876 in Testama manor, Livonia, Russian Empire – 16 March 1937 in Beiping, China) was a Baltic German aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, and Sanskritologist specializing in Buddhist texts.

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