Claude-Charles Dallet (1829–1878) was a Catholic missionary who is best known for his work ''The History of the Church of Korea'' (''Histoire de l'Église de Corée'').
Charles Dallet was born in
Langres, France, on 18 October 1829. He joined the
Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1850 and was ordained on 5 June 1852. Shortly after, he was sent to
Mysore, in southern India. He was appointed as the
Apostolic Vicar in
Bangalore in 1857. In 1859, he published there, in English, a work titled ''Controversial Catechism, or short answers to the objections of Protestants against the true religion''.
He spent the years 1860 to 1863 in France, recovering from
epilepsy. During this period, he supervised the casting of type fonts for the Telugu and Kanara languages, which he took with him when he returned to Bangalore in 1863, using them for some publications in vernacular languages under his editorship. In 1867, he got ill again and returned to France.
In 1870 he was sent to
Quebec on a speaking tour. He stayed for a time at
Laval University
Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of:
People
* House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne
* Laval (surname)
Places Belgium
* Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxemb ...
in Quebec. It was there that he classified manuscripts regarding the
Catholic Church in Korea—largely the work of the martyred bishop
Antoine Daveluy—which provided the material for his ''Histoire de l'Église de Corée'' (1874, two volumes). In 1877, Dallet went back to India, this time passing Russia, Manchuria, China and Japan. From Japan he stopped at
Cochin China. While in
Tongkin, he died of
dysentery on 25 April 1878.
External links
''Histoire de l'Église de Corée'' Volume 1''Histoire de l'Église de Corée'' Volume 2Archives of the Paris Foreign Missions Society
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1829 births
1878 deaths
French Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic writers
Paris Foreign Missions Society missionaries
People from Langres
Roman Catholic missionaries in India
French expatriates in India
Deaths from dysentery