Antoine Gaubil

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Antoine Gaubil , SJ, (born July 14, 1689 Gaillac-d'Aveyron , † July 24, 1759 in Beijing ) was a French Jesuit missionary in China and a historian of science.

Life

Gaubil entered the Jesuit order in 1704, which sent him to China in 1722. He then lived in Beijing until his death . As the successor to Dominique Parrenin, he ran a school where the Chinese learned Latin, which served as the diplomatic language with Russia. He was considered the best astronomer and historian of the French Jesuits in China in the 18th century. Gaubil corresponded with French scientists such as the astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and published books on Chinese history of astronomy and the translation of Chinese historical sources in Paris. These included the history of Genghis Khan in 1739 , the Book of Documents (Shoo-king, 1770) and parts of the annals of the Tang Dynasty . He left behind many manuscripts, some of which later went to the Paris Observatory and Naval Depot and some to the British Museum, and some of which were published in the 19th century.

In 1739 he became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . He was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

His Chinese name was Sun Kiun-yung.

Fonts

  • Traité de l'Astronomie Chinoise , in Étienne Souciet (editor) "Observations mathématiques", Paris, 1729–1732
  • Traité de la Chronologie Chinoise , Paris, 1814
  • Renée Simon (editor): Le P. Antoine Gaubil SJ Correspondance de Pékin, 1722-1759 , 1970 (with biography of Joseph Dehergne, SJ)

literature

  • Joseph Dehergne: Le Père Gaubil et ses correspondants (1689-1759) , Bulletin de l'Université l'Aurore, 3rd series, Volume 5, 1944, pp. 354-392
  • Joseph Dehergne: Gaubil: historien de l'astronomie chinoise , Bulletin de l'Université l'Aurore, 3rd series, Volume 6, 1945, pp. 168–227

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Antoine Gaubil. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 20, 2015 .
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 17, 2019 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Gaubil, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaillac-d'Aveyron
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1759
Place of death Beijing