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Christian Herdtrich
Christian Wolfgang Herdtrich (25 June 1625– 18 July 1684) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire. As he wrote his works in Latin, he is also known as Life Christian Wolfgang Herdtrich was born at Graz, Styria, in the Austrian Empire on 25 June 1625. Herdtrich entered the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus on 27 October 1641, and in 1656 was chosen for the Chinese mission. For two years he laboured on the island of Sulawesi ("Celebes"). After 1660, he moved to the Chinese provinces of Shanxi and Henan. In 1671, he was called to the imperial court in Beijing as a mathematician; there, he joined a group of scholarly Jesuits with whom the Kangxi Emperor surrounded himself. The last nine years of his life were spent as superior of the mission of "Kiang-tcheon" in Shanxi. He died on 18 July 1684. The Kangxi Emperor himself wrote on Herdtrich's epitaph."Welt-Bott", Augsburg, 1726, Nos. 16, 49. Works Herdtrich professed a profound knowledge of the Chinese langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Language
Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be variants of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered separate languages in a family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shangh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Expatriates In China
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Austrian Roman Catholic Missionaries
Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ** Austria-Hungary ** Austrian Airlines (AUA) ** Austrian cuisine ** Austrian Empire ** Austrian monarchy ** Austrian German (language/dialects) ** Austrian literature ** Austrian nationality law ** Austrian Service Abroad ** Music of Austria **Austrian School of Economics * Economists of the Austrian school of economic thought * The Austrian Attack variation of the Pirc Defence chess opening. See also * * * Austria (other) * Australian (other) * L'Autrichienne (other) is the feminine form of the French word , meaning "The Austrian". It may refer to: *A derogatory nickname for Queen Marie Antoinette of France *L'Autrichienne (film), ''L'Autrichienne'' (film), a 1990 French film on Marie Antoinette with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Missionaries In China
* William of Rubruck (1253) * Giovanni di Monte Corvino O.F.M. (1294) * Arnold of Cologne (1303) * Andrew of Perugia (1307) * Odoric of Pordenone O.F.M. (1322) * St. Francis Xavier S.J. (1552) * Michele Ruggieri S.J. (1579) * Matteo Ricci S.J. (1582) * Alessandro Valignano S.J. (1570s–1580s) * Andrius Rudamina S.J. (1620-1630s) - Lithuanian Jesuit missionary * Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592–1666) - German Jesuit missionary and astronomer * Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer S.J. (1618–1620) * Alexandre de Rhodes S.J. (1630) * Francis Ferdinand de Capillas O.P. (1642–48) * Martino Martini S.J. (1640–1661) * Thomas Pereira S.J. (1645–1708) * Ferdinand Verbiest S.J. (1659) * Caspar Castner S.J. (1696–1709) * Giuseppe Castiglione S.J. (1715) * Matteo Ripa (16??–17??) * Jean Joseph Marie Amiot S.J. (1750) * Michel Benoist S.J. (1774–1775) * Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier C.M. (served 1862–1905) * Johann Baptist von Anzer S.V.D. (1851–1903) * Armand David C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th-century Austrian Jesuits
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1684 Deaths
Events January–March * January 5 – King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn. * January 15 (January 5 O.S.) - To demonstrate that the River Thames, frozen solid during the Great Frost that started in December, is safe to walk upon, "a Coach and six horses drove over the Thames for a wager" and within three days "whole streets of Booths are built on the Thames and thousands of people are continually walking thereon." Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet, records the events in his diary. * January 26 – Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge of Venice. * January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law. * Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1625 Births
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Adrien Greslon
Adrien Greslon (1618 at Périgueux – 1697) was a French Jesuit missionary to China. Life He entered the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux, 5 November 1635. He then taught literature and theology in various houses of his order until 1655, when he was sent as a missionary to China. He arrived there in 1657, and after mastering the Chinese and Manchu languages went to the Province of Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ..., which he described as a veritable Garden of Eden. Here he remained, engaged in his missionary labours, until 1670, when he returned to France. Works Greslon wrote two books: ''Les vies des saints patriarches de l'Ancien Testament'', with reflections in Chinese; and ''Histoire de la Chine sous la domination des Tartares ... depuis l'année 16 ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius Hazart
Cornelius Hazart (28 October 1617 – 25 October 1690) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, controversialist, orator and writer of polemical history. Life Hazart was born at Oudenaarde in the County of Flanders. He entered the Society of Jesus on 24 September 1634 and was ordained priest, 6 April 1647, at Louvain, where he had already the reputation of ''perfectus orator''. He made his religious profession on 1 November 1651; and preached during a period of thirty-six years, for a time at Dunkirk and Brussels, then permanently at Antwerp, where he died. Hazart's life, apart from the duties of his pastoral office, was almost exclusively taken up with his struggle against the Calvinists of the Low Countries. His "Epistola ad Langravium Hassiæ-Rheinfeldtium" suggests some activity in Germany too. He delivered, at the church of the professed house at Antwerp, a series of sermons on controversial questions. Some of these he preached in the ' Grote markt' (main market-place) of Antwerp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François De Rougemont
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Prospero Intorcetta
Prospero Intorcetta (1626–1696), known to the Chinese as Yin Duoze, was an Italian Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire. The first to translate the works of Confucius in Europe. Life Prospero Intorcetta was born in Piazza Armerina in 1626. Traveling with the Flemish Jesuit Philippe Couplet, he reached China in 1659. There, he mostly worked in the Jiangnan region around the lower Yangtze River. He died in 1696. Works Intorcetta studied Chinese philosophy. In 1662, he published the study of the Four Books of Confucianism in a Latin work entitled ''The Meaning of Chinese Wisdom''.Brockey, p.279 In 1667, he published the ''Politico-Moral Knowledge of the Chinese'' ('). In 1687, under Philippe Couplet's guidance, he worked with Christian Wolfgang Herdtrich and François de Rougemont to compile an influential Latin overview of Chinese history and translation of some of the Confucian classics under the title ''Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese'' ('). See also * Jesuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
