Jean-Louis Taberd (1794–1840)[2] was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, and titular bishop of Isauropolis, in partibus infidelium.[3]
Career
Born in Saint-Étienne, Jean-Louis Taberd was ordained priest in Lyon in 1817. He joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1820, and was appointed to become a missionary in Cochinchina,[lower-alpha 1] modern Vietnam. In 1827 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Cochinchina, and Bishop of the titular see of Isauropolis in 1830.[2][3] With the persecutions of the Emperor of Vietnam Minh Mạng, Mgr Taberd was forced to escape the country.
Jean-Louis Taberd first went to Penang and then Calcutta, where, with the help of Lord Auckland and the Asiatic Society he was able to publish his own Latin-Vietnamese dictionary in 1838.[3] He improved upon the previous works of Alexandre de Rhodes and Pigneau de Béhaine, whose 1773 Vietnamese-Latin dictionary he had been handed in manuscript form.[5] He also published Pigneau's dictionary in 1838 under the name Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum.[1]
In his work The Geography of Cochin China, Taberd reports the Paracel Islands (today a hotly disputed island territory in Southeast Asia) as having been conquered and claimed by Emperor Gia Long in 1816.[6]
Legacy
In the late 19th century, the renowned Catholic college Institut Taberd was founded in Saigon by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and, since 1943, to educate a Vietnamese elite.[7][8]
Works
- Dictionarium Latino-Annamiticum completum et novo ordine dispositum (Latin-Vietnamese dictionary), 1838
- Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, primitus inceptum ab illustrissimo P.J. Pigneaux, dein absolutum et ed. a J. L. Taberd, Serampore, 1838
- The Geography of Cochin China
- Notes on the Geography of Cochin China, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 6/7 (1837/39)
Notes
- ↑ Jean-Louis Taberd was likely among the first to explain the meaning of "Cochin China" in his 1837 scientific article; see quotation in Notes on Vietnam History.[4]
Citations
- 1 2 Manteigne, p.67
- 1 2 Catholic hierarchy
- 1 2 3 The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, p.195
- ↑ Vu Quoc Loc 2023a.
- ↑ Wörterbücher: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Lexikographie by Franz Josef Hausmann, p.2584
- ↑ Sovereignty Over the Paracel and Spratly Islands by Monique Chemillier-Gendreau p.180
- ↑ JSTOR: The Vietnamese Elite of French Cochinchina, 1943, RB Smith - 1972
- ↑ JSTOR: Conflict in the Classroom: A Case Study from Vietnam, 1918-38 GP Kelly - 1987
References
- Vu Quoc Loc (2023a), Notes on Vietnam History, Internet Archive, retrieved 27 Jun 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0.