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Transcription of the biographies of Joseph Dehergne, Répertoire des Jésuites de Chine de 1552 à 1800, Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I 37 (Roma : Paris: Institutum historicum ; Letouzey & Ané, 1973)
Sources included in this repository
Dehergne, Joseph. Répertoire des Jésuites de Chine de 1552 à 1800. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I 37. Roma : Paris: Institutum historicum ; Letouzey & Ané, 1973.
Biographical dictionary focussed on the french jesuit missionaries on China but including many others. Available at archive.org as PDF with embedded OCR. Also in text format, but the OCR in the text format version is of lower quality than the one embedded in the PDF.
This work is used as reference for names, dates and other bibliographical information by Brockey, Liam Matthew. Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2008.
There is a Chinese translation, which is very helpful in what regards the Chinese names of missionaries and current names of places.
Joseph, S. I. Dehergne. 在華耶穌會士列傳及書目補編. 第1版.., 中華書局, 1995.
Scope
Enumeration at the start of the Repertoire (before p.1):
- those belonging to the vice-province, or to the French mission in China
- those, Chinese or not, that were in continental China (with the exception of Macau) [because "hundreds and hunderds" of those destined to Japan and other non-China missions stayed in Macau and studied at S.Paulo College, see p.XI ]).
- the Jesuit Superiors, bishops of Japan and Macau, Visitors (both of Japan and China), vice-provincials, and other superiors even if they never laid foot in China.
- Procurators (fr. procureurs, pt. procuradores) in charge of the mission in Macau and Goa.
- Those that died in China on their way to Japan.
- In smaller print those that were meant for China but died on their way or were detoured to other missions, the "macaistes" that have not worked in inland China and others who influenced, in various ways, the China mission.
The main target are French Jesuits missionaires in China. But includes all that were in mainland China. Does not include those at Macau that were in transit to places other than continental China (for instance Japan).
Aditional information
Identifying the fleet of the voyage from Lisbon to Goa
Dehergne includes information from:
- Wicki, J., & Boxer, C. R. (1967). Liste der Jesuiten-Indienfahrer, 1541-1758. Aschendorffsche.
This information relates to the voyage from Lisbon to Goa, India. In Wicky's work there is a sequential number for each fleet of ships that made the voyage in a given year, and another sequentitial number each missionary abroad.
Dehergne keeps only the missionary numbers, not the fleet numbers. This prevents knowing who travelled with whom. We recovered the fleet numbers from the Wicki list and added to each entry. More information in the transcription documentation in portuguese
Identifying names
Current work on identifying place names is going on in a fork:
https://github.com/joaquimrcarvalho/dehergne-locationsWe use wikidata links to identity the place names, e.g.
ls$estadia/Goa# @wikidata:Q1171Complementary sources
Whenever possible missing information was added, mostly from reports "Cartas ânuas", using modern editions when available.
The main items added are place of entry in the Jesuits, places of stay, and tasks ("jesuitas-tarefa").
Currently:
- Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço & António Guimarães Pinto. (2023). Cartas ânuas da Cochinchina (1619-1635). Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau; Universidade de Macau.
Credits
The identification of place names and reconstruction of networks of places and people was supported by Macao Polytechnic University, through project RP/CIPFIC－01/2023.
License
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(c) Joaquim Carvalho, Macao Polytechnic University
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