François Turrettini was a Swiss Sinologist and publisher, active in the City of Geneva in the late 19th century.
The descendant of an elite family involved in politics since the Italian theologist François Turrettini's refuge to the city republic in the 17th century.
François Turrettini, the sinologist, founded the publishing firm "L'Atsumegusa" in Geneva that, for the first time in Europe, printed East Asian texts in Chinese characters, starting in 1871.
His research and publishing projects relied on the assistance of Tschin Ta-Ni, a Chinese typesetter, who was the first Chinese person to obtain citizenship in the City and Republic of Geneva.
[1] The publications of Turrettini's publishing house "Atsumegusa" included: