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( Nicolas Trigault)
Nicolas Trigault (1577-1628) was a French Jesuit, and a missionary to China. He was also known by his latinised name Trigautius or Trigaultius, and his Chinese name Jin Nígé (???). Born in Douai (then part of the Spanish Netherlands, today part of France), he became a Jesuit in 1594. Trigault left Europe to do missionary work Asia around 1610, eventually arriving at Nanking, China in 1611. He was later brought by the Chinese Catholic Li Zhizao to his hometown of Hangzhou where he worked as one of the first missionaries ever to reach that city and was eventually to die there in 1629. From 1612-18 Trigault was sent back to Europe to report to Pope Paul V,[1] where the monk was also sent on a tour around Europe to raise money and publicize the work of the Jesuit missions. Peter Paul Rubens did a portrait of Trigault when the latter stopped there in 1617 (at right).[2] Trigault is perhaps best known for having edited and translated Matteo Ricci's "China Journal", or De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas (from Italian into Latin). The work was published in 1615; it was later translated into many European languages and widely read. He produced the first system of Chinese Romanisation in 1626, in his work Xiru Ermu Zi (????? "Aid to the Eyes and Ears of Western Literati"). Aided by a converted Chinese, he also produced the first Chinese version of Aesop's Fables (?? "Analogy"), published in 1625.
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