Léopold de Saussure was a Swiss-born French sinologist, pioneering scholar of ancient Chinese astronomy, and officer in the French navy. After a naval career which took him to Indochina, China, and Japan, he quit the service and devoted the remainder of his life to scholarship. He was most famous for his studies of ancient Chinese astronomy.
- Occupation
- astronomer, naval officer, sinologist
- Citizenship
- Switzerland, France
- Born
- May 30, 1866
- Died
- July 30, 1925
