Jacques Legrand (Mongolist)

He has published numerous publications under the auspices of UNESCO, and the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations in Ulaanbaatar, which he chairs. In total he has written at least 70 publications as of 2009.

On December 20, 2006, he visited Tamkang University (TKU) to discuss the possibility of academic exchange with French Department of Tamkang University and later visited the Carrie Chang Fine Arts Center and Chueh-sheng Memorial Library.

Jacques Legrand was President of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales from March 2005 for a term of 4 years. This mandate was renewed in March 2009 until March 2013.

He has collaborated on numerous books, both scholarly publications and general works, and also on the film Urga, by Nikita Mikhalkov (1991).

From 1981 to 1989, he taught French as a Foreign Language at the University in Rouen. During this period, from 1986 to 1989, he taught the civilization of East Asia at the university, focusing primarily on the cultures and history of Mongolia, China and Japan.

Jacques Legrand (born 29 June 1946) is a French linguist and anthropologist. He worked as a translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China from 1967–68. He specializes in Mongolian literature and history and the Mongolian language.

Legrand was born on 29 June 1946 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine in western France. From 1967 to 1968, he worked as a translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China. His return to France was followed closely by the establishment of the Mongolian language department at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (then Centre Universitaire des Langues Orientales Vivantes) in 1970. He has been Professor of Mongolian Language and Literature there since 1989. He was an independent contractor and lecturer from 1971 to 1977, and a lecturer and senior lecturer from 1977 to 1989.