Gilbertus Happart (also recorded as Gillis or Gilbert Happart) was a seventeenth-century

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missionary to Formosa (now known as

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). He was stationed in the village of Favorlang (modern-day Huwei) and wrote a dictionary of the Favorlang language of the inhabitants.

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Year of birth missing 1653 deaths Dutch Protestant missionaries People from Goes People of Dutch Formosa Dutch lexicographers Protestant missionaries in Taiwan Missionary linguists {{Taiwan-reli-bio-stub