Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare
Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare (17 July 1666 – 17 September 1736) was a
In 1724, after the Yongzheng Emperor virtually banned Christianity over the Chinese Rites controversy, he was confined with his colleagues in Guangzhou and later banished to Macau, where he died.
His Notitia linguae sinicae, written in 1736 and first published in 1831,[1] was the first important Chinese language grammar in a European language. His letters can be found in the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses de Chine series.[2]
Father de Prémare is among the missionaries who furnished
De Prémare's writings also include a defense of figurism proposed by Joachim Bouvet, which held that the doctrines of Christianity were mystically embodied in the Chinese classics.[7]
Works
- Joseph Henri Prémare (translated byJ. G. Bridgman) (1847). The Notitia linguae sinicae of Premare. Printed at the office of Chinese repository. p. 303. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
Notes
- ISBN 9783662465042.
- ^ Brucker, Joseph. "Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 8 Jun. 2013 Online version.
- ^ Liu 1953, 201.
- ^ a b Liu 1953, 202.
- ^ Hawkes 1985, 108.
- ISBN 978-0-231-53810-7.
- ^ Brucker, "Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare."
References
- Knud Lundbæk. Joseph De Prémare, 1666-1736, S.J. : Chinese Philology and Figurism. (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, Acta Jutlandica, 1991). ISBN 8772883448.
- Hawkes, David (1985). Classical, Modern and Humane: Essays in Chinese Literature. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. ISBN 9789622013544.
- Liu, Wu-Chi (1953). "The Original Orphan of China". Comparative Literature. 5 (3): 193–212. JSTOR 1768912.
- D. E. Mungello. Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology. (Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa, 1985). Reprinted: Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1989 ISBN 0824812190. [1]
External links
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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