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# Irina Vasilyevna Pozdeyeva used to say that Saint Nicholas of Japan taught the Japanese language to Academician Huber, but only 12 years passed between the birth of the latter and the death of the former
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/irina-vasilevna-pozdeeva-rasskazyvala-chto-sviatitel-nikolai-iaponskii-uchil-iaponskomu-iazyku-akademika-gubera-no-mezhdu-rozhdeniem-vtorogo-i-smertiu-pervogo-proshlo-vsego-12-let/
- Published: 2018-12-01T16:40:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:44:16.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, The East, Observations, Science

Irina Vasilyevna Pozdeyeva used to say that Saint Nicholas of Japan taught the Japanese language to Academician Huber, but only 12 years passed between the birth of the latter and the death of the former. That leaves the possibility that Huber studied Japanese as a child, given his noble origins; this, in principle, one can believe