Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (died 1935)

Basil Hall Chamberlain

British academic (1850–1935)

Basil Hall Chamberlain was a British academic and Japanologist. He was a professor of the Japanese language at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. He also wrote some of the earliest translations of…