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Frank Lequin
Frank Lequin (born 1946) is a Dutch historian, academic, editor and author. He is best known as an expert on the Dutch East Indies Company and Isaac Titsingh.
Early life.
Lequin was born in Rotterdam in 1946. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in 1982.
Career.
In 1976, he founded the Titsingh Institute for research.
Selected works.
- (2013). "Varia Titsinghiana. Addenda & corrigenda." Leiden. (
father-in-law of the eleventh Tokugawa "shōgun" Ienari.
Further reading.
- Lequin, Frank, ed. (1990). "The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh", [Japonica neerlandica, IV] Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben.
- Screech, Timon. (2005). "Japan Extolled: Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm, 1775–1796". London: RoutledgeCurzon. (cloth)
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