Jean-François Foucquet

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Jean-François Foucquet , also Jean-François Fouquet (born March 12, 1665 in Vézelay , † March 14, 1741 ) was a French Jesuit from Burgundy , Roman Catholic bishop, historian and astronomer . He worked in the Jesuit mission in China for 22 years .

Life

Fouquet was born into a rich family. He went to school at the Lycée Louis le Grand in Paris. In 1681 he entered the Jesuit order. Four years later he was teaching mathematics. In 1693 he was ordained a priest . In 1699 he arrived in Amoy . Until 1711 he worked in Fujian and Jiangxi . Then he was called by the emperor to Beijing to teach mathematics and astronomy there. In 1720 he was called back to France by his superiors. In Canton he waited a year for a ship to France. He arrived in Europe in 1722.

Fouquet took a Chinese named Hu to Europe. who liked it in Paris and who got lost in the Latin Quarter . Hu preached in Cantonese for a while in front of the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church . Fouquet wanted to travel to Rome by stagecoach with Hu. But since Hu refused the stagecoach, he stayed in France and, at Fouquet's instigation, was imprisoned with a lettre de cachet in the Charenton psychiatric clinic in Paris for two years . In 1726 he returned to China

On June 8, 1723 Fouquet was by Pope Innocent XIII. receive. On March 21, 1725 he was appointed titular bishop of Eleutheropolis in Macedonia . Pope Benedict XIII consecrated him bishop on March 25, 1725, with Giovanni Francesco Nicolai , Apostolic Vicar of Houkouang, and Giacinto Gaetano Chiurlia , Bishop of Giovainazzo as co-consecrators .

Books

  • De la Doctrine et des Livres des Chinois
  • Tabula Chronologica Historiæ Sinicæ Connexa cum Cyclo qui vulgo Kia-Tse dicitur

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Claude Martzloff: A History of Chinese Mathematics . Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-33783-6 , pp. 358 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Bishop Jean François Fouquet. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .

literature

  • John W. Witek: Controversial ideas in China and in Europe: a biography of Jean-François Foucquet, SJ, (1665–1741). Institutum Historicum SI, Rome 1982.
  • David E. Mungello: The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800: 1500-1800 Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, ISBN 0-7425-3815-X .
  • Jean-Claude Martzloff, Jaques Gernet, Jean Dhombres: A History of Chinese Mathematics. Springer, 2006, ISBN 3-540-33782-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Foucquet, Jean-François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fouquet, Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burgundian Jesuit, Roman Catholic bishop, historian and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Vezelay
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1741