Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614–1661)
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Martino Martini
Portrait of Martino Martini
Personal details
Born
(1614-09-20)20 September 1614
Trento, Bishopric of Trent, Holy Roman Empire
Died
6 June 1661(1661-06-06) (aged 46) Hangzhou, China
Nationality
Tridentine, Holy Roman Empire
Denomination
Christianity
Occupation
Missionary, cartographer and historian
Martino Martini (simplified Chinese: 卫匡国; traditional Chinese: 衛匡國; pinyin: Wèi Kuāngguó) (20 September 1614 – 6 June 1661), born and raised in Trento (Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire), was a Jesuit missionary. As cartographer and historian, he mainly worked on ancient Imperial China.[1]
^Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Martino Martini" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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reign of the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty, Italian missionary MartinoMartini was the first person to systematically introduce Chinese geography...
tribute system. Afterwards, Europeans like Matteo Ricci, Álvaro Semedo, MartinoMartini and Philippe Couplet gradually constructed the name "Chinese Empire"...
transferred to English as "Pekin" and to French as Pékin. Jesuit missionary MartinoMartini used "Peking" in De bello Tartarico historia (The Tartary [Manchu]...
spelt as the "Ch'in dynasty", has been proposed in the 17th century by MartinoMartini and supported by later scholars such as Paul Pelliot and Berthold Laufer...
In his Sinicae historiae decas prima (published in Munich in 1658), MartinoMartini (1614–1661) dated the Yellow Emperor's ascension at 2697 BCE and began...
January 2021. Starting since the first book about the Manchu conquest: MartinoMartini, De Bello Tartarico Historia. Antwerp 1654 For example, Jean-Baptiste...
Press. pp. 194–195. ISBN 978-0-521-54724-6. See e.g. MartinoMartini's detailed account in Martini Martinii Sinicae historiae decas prima : res a gentis...
from China to Belgium of Italian Jesuit missionary MartinoMartini. It is sometimes reported that Martini lectured throughout Europe with a magic lantern...
chinoises de l'atlas Martini (1655)», i Monumenta Serica 12 (1947), s. 127-144 (Nyopptrykk i Malek/Zingerle (utg.): MartinoMartini S.J. (1614–1661) und...
in lakes, rivers, and springs in the province "Karazan". In 1656, MartinoMartini, a priest, wrote that the Chinese alligator lived in the river Yangtze...
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1607) June 3 – Gottfried Scheidt, German composer (b. 1593) June 6 – MartinoMartini, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1614) June 11 – George II, Landgrave...
Jesuit MartinoMartini had visited China in the 1650s and published Novus Atlas Sinensis in 1655. In the section on Peking Province, Martini described...
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