Antoine Mostaert
Antoine Mostaert (Dutch: Antoon; 10 August 1881 – 1971) was a Belgian Roman Catholic missionary in China.
Life
Born in
Catholic works from Chinese into Mongolian. The Monguor language formed another field of study. From 1925-1948 he lived in Beijing, where he devoted himself primarily to scholarship. In 1948 he moved to the United States, where he lived until his retirement to Belgium in 1965. Died in Tienen
. His Mongol name was Tiyen Baγsi or Nom-un Baγsi Tiyen, deriving from his Chinese name Tian Qingbo (田清波).
In addition to
Ming
relations.
The private library and papers of A. Mostaert are kept at the Scheut Memorial Library Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine in Leuven, Belgium.
Major works
- Textes oraux ordos, recueillis et publiés avec introduction, notes morphologiques, commentaries et glossaire (Pei’ping, H. Vetch, 1937)
- Dictionnaire ordos (Peking, [Furen?] Catholic University, 1941-4)
- Folklore ordos (Peip’ing, Catholic University, 1947)
- Sur quelques passages de l’Histoire Secrète des Mongols, published separately in HJAS, 1950-2, in one volume, 1953
He also worked extensively on the 華夷譯語 Huayi yiyu (the "Chinese-Barbarian Dictionary" of the Bureau of Translators), which like the Secret History took the form of a Mongol text both transcribed and translated into Chinese. This work was never published by him, but appeared posthumously in 1977 edited by Igor de Rachewiltz as
- Le matériel Mongol du Houa i i iu de Houng-ou (1389), Bruxelles, Institut belge des hautes études chinoises 1389.
Sources
- Jozef Van Hecken, Antoine Mostaert CICM (1881-1971): apôtre des Mongols et doyen des études mongoles, Beckenried, 1972.
- Serge Elisséeff, “The Reverend Antoine Mostaert, C.I.C.M.”, HJAS, v. 19, vii-xiv
- Essays in Antoine Mostaert (1881–1971): C.I.C.M. Missionary and Scholar, ed. Klaus Sagaster, 1999.
References
- ^ Cited in Igor de Rachewiltz, “Father Antoine Mostaert’s Contribution to the Study of The Secret History of the Mongols and the Hua-I I-Yü,” in Antoine Mostaert, vol. 1, p. 93.
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