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James Curtis Hepburn
James Curtis Hepburn, MD,
LL.D.
(March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an
American
physician, translator, educator and lay Christian
missionary
. He is known for the
Hepburn romanization
system for
transliteration
of the Japanese language into the
Latin alphabet
, which he popularized in his Japanese–English
dictionary
.
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