Christine Charlotte (Christa) Champion De Crespigny (nee Boltz), died at Krems, Austria, 27 August, 2024, aged 85.
She was the born in Berlin, 24 August, 1939, daughter of Hans Boltz, and married 19 May, 1959, Richard Rafe Champion De Crespigny (born 1936), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Richard Geoffrey Champion De Crespigny, OBE (1907-1966), and his wife the former Kathleen Cavenagh Cudmore (1908-2013).
Her husband also known by his Chinese name Zhang Leifu (Chinese: 張磊夫), is an Australian sinologist and historian. He was an adjunct professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. He specialised in the history, geography, and literature of the Han dynasty, particularly the translation and historiography of material concerning the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.
Christa Champion De Crespigny leaves a son, Mark, and a daughter, Anne.
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