sentences:  Alexander von Staël-Holstein
  
  Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Staël von Holstein (, January 1, 1877, in Testama manor, Governorate of Livonia (Russian Empire)March 16, 1937, in Peiping, Republic of China); was a German-baltic aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist, specializing in Buddhist texts.Related to Madame de Staël's husband, the future baron was born in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (present-day Estonia),in an aristocratic family (with widespread relations in other German Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire, Sweden and Northern Germany) on New Year's Day.