Fernão Guerreiro

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Fernão Guerreiro (* 1550 ?; † 1617 ; name variants Fernando Guerreiro , Ferdinand Guerreiro ) was a Portuguese Jesuit and historian.

His work Relacão annual das cousas que fizeram os padres da Comp. de Jesus nas partes da India Oriental is a continuation of the Chinese and Japanese church history by Luis de Guzmań (1544 (?) - 1605). It is an important source for the history of the Jesuit missions in the East Indies, China, Japan and Africa during the first nine years of the 17th century and provides particularly important information about the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and the Kingdom of Pegu .

Works

  • Relacao annual das coisas que fizeram os Padres da Companhia de Jesu nas suas missoes ... nos anos 1600–1609 e do processo da conversao e cristandade da quelas partes: tiradas das cartas que os missionarios de la escreveram. Nova edicao by Artur Viegas. 3 vols. Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional, 1930–1940

Translations

  • Indian Newe Relation / Described in Portuguese by R. Patre Fernando Guerreiro, the Societé Iesv. Subsequently brought into German from the copies printed at Lißbona. Printed to Augspurg / bey Chrysostomo Dabertzhofer, 1614 (Relacão annual das cousas que fizeram os padres da Comp. De Jesus nas partes da India Oriental ... nos annos 1607 e 1608 ..., German)
  • Father Fernao Guerreiro, SJ: Jahangir and the Jesuits: trans. CH Payne with an account of the Travels of Benedict Goes and the Mission of Pegu. New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1997 (first in The Broadway Travelers series)

literature

  • Luis de Guzmań: Historia de las missiones que han hecho los Religiosos de la Compannia de Jesu, para predicar - en la India Oriental, y en los Regnos de la China y Japon. Alcala, 1601 (2 parts)

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personal data
SURNAME Guerreiro, Fernão
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerreiro, Fernando; Guerreiro, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Jesuit and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1550
DATE OF DEATH 1617