Richard Wilhelm

The German sinologist and missionary whose 1923 translation of the Yijing — rendered to English by Cary Baynes in 1950, with a foreword by C. G. Jung — carried the Book of Changes into the modern West and made it, for a century, the I Ching people actually read.

The chief channel of the tradition's Western reception, and the reason the hexagrams reached Jung, the Beats, and the counterculture.