Jean-Louis Taberd
Jean-Louis Taberd | |
|---|---|
| Vicar Apostolic of Cochin | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Vicariate Apostolic of Cochin |
| In office | 18 September 1827 – 31 July 1840 |
| Predecessor | Jean de Labartette |
| Successor | Étienne-Théodore Cuenot |
| Other posts | Vicar Apostolic of Bengal (1838-1840) Titular Bishop of Isauropolis (1827-1840) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 27 April 1817 |
| Consecration | 30 May 1830 by Esprit-Marie-Joseph Florens |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 June 1794 |
| Died | 31 July 1840 (aged 46) |
Jean-Louis Taberd (1794–1840)[1] was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, apostolic vicar of Cochinchina, and titular bishop of Isauropolis, in partibus infidelium.[2] He edited and published the Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, building upon earlier efforts by Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine and Vietnamese Catholics.
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,[a] modern Vietnam. In 1827 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Cochinchina, and Bishop of the titular see of Isauropolis in 1830.[1][2] 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.[2] 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.[4] He also published Pigneau's dictionary in 1838 under the name Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum.
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.[5]
Legacy
In the late 19th century, the renowned Catholic Institution Taberd (vi) was founded in Saigon by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and, since 1943, to educate a Vietnamese elite.[6][7]
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
- "Note on the Geography of Cochin China". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 6 (69): 737–745. 1837.
- "Additional Notice on the Geography of Cochinchina". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 7 (76): 314–324. 1838.
Notes
- ↑ Jean-Louis Taberd was likely among the first to explain the meaning of "Cochin China" in his 1837 scientific article.[3]
Citations
- 1 2 Catholic hierarchy
- 1 2 3 The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, p.195
- ↑ Vu Quoc Loc (2023a), Notes on Vietnam History, Internet Archive, retrieved 27 Jun 2023
- ↑ 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