Jean-Louis Taberd

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File:An Nam Dai Quoc Hoa Do by Jean Louis Taberd 1838.jpg
Taberd's 1838 map of Cochin China (or "Cocincina"), interior ̣(Đàng Trong) and exterior (Đàng Ngoài) in higher resolution with colors. Highest resolution map (3500 × 6111).
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The 1838 Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum.
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A page of Jean-Louis Taberd's 1838 Vietnamese-Latin dictionary (Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum), based on the manuscript dictionary of Pigneau de Béhaine.[1]
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Map of the Vietnamese Empire, in Taberd's 1838 Dictionarium Latino-Annamiticum.

Jean-Louis Taberd (1794–1840)[2] was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, and titular bishop of Isauropolis, in partibus infidelium.[3]

Career

Born in Saint-Étienne, Jean-Louis Taberd was ordained priest in Lyon in 1817. He joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1820, and was appointed to become a missionary in Cochinchina,Template:Efn modern Vietnam. In 1827 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Cochinchina, and Bishop of the titular see of Isauropolis in 1830.[2][3] With the persecutions of the Emperor of Vietnam Minh Mạng, Mgr Taberd was forced to escape the country.

Jean-Louis Taberd first went to Penang and then Calcutta, where, with the help of Lord Auckland and the Asiatic Society he was able to publish his own Latin-Vietnamese dictionary in 1838.[3] He improved upon the previous works of Alexandre de Rhodes and Pigneau de Béhaine, whose 1773 Vietnamese-Latin dictionary he had been handed in manuscript form.[4] He also published Pigneau's dictionary in 1838 under the name Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum.[1]

In his work The Geography of Cochin China, Taberd reports the Paracel Islands (today a hotly disputed island territory in Southeast Asia) as having been conquered and claimed by Emperor Gia Long in 1816.[5]

Legacy

In the late 19th century, the renowned Catholic college Institut Taberd was founded in Saigon by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and, since 1943, to educate a Vietnamese elite.[6][7]

Works

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  1. a b ManteigneScript error: No such module "Unsubst"., p.67
  2. a b Catholic hierarchy
  3. a b c The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, p.195
  4. Wörterbücher: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Lexikographie by Franz Josef Hausmann, p.2584 [1]
  5. Sovereignty Over the Paracel and Spratly Islands by Monique Chemillier-Gendreau p.180 [2]
  6. JSTOR: The Vietnamese Elite of French Cochinchina, 1943, RB Smith - 1972 [3]
  7. JSTOR: Conflict in the Classroom: A Case Study from Vietnam, 1918-38 GP Kelly - 1987 [4]

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