Jean Genoud
Jean Genoud (* 1650 in Châtel-Saint-Denis ; † February / March 1693 in Ava , the then capital of Burma ) was a Catholic missionary in Southeast Asia .
Genoud was the son of a captain in a free company in the French service. From 1663 to 1668 he was a student of the Jesuits in Freiburg / Switzerland . He then went on to study theology in Paris . In 1679 he entered the Paris missionary seminary (Missions Étrangères de Paris). In 1680 he went to Siam , arrived there in 1682. In Oudong , the capital of Cambodia at that time, he built a mission station, after which he returned to Siam after the destruction of it in the course of an attack by the Annamites (Vietnamese). In 1685 Genoud went to Phitsanulok , in 1687 he became a professor at the General College in Maha Pram near Ayutthaya .
In 1689 Genoud was sent to the Burmese sub- kingdom of Pegu together with Jean Joret and had a church built in Syriam . After some mission successes in the rest of Burma, both missionaries were drowned in the Irrawaddy at the instigation of the Buddhist priesthood, who feared for their influence .
literature
- A. Launay: Mémorial de la Société des missions étrangères . Vol. 2, 1916.
Web links
- Thomas Henkel: Genoud, Jean. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Genoud, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic missionary in Southeast Asia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1650 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtel-Saint-Denis |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1693 or March 1693 |
| Place of death | Ava |