Edmund Papinot
Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot (1860–1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was also known in Japan as Father Papino. He was an architect, academic, historian, editor, Japanologist. Papinot is best known for creating an Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan which was first published in French in 1899.
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Edmund Papinot
- Name
- Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot
- Born
- 1860
- Birthplace
- Châlons-sur-Saône, France
- Died
- 1942
- Place of death
- Montbeton, France
- Occupation
- Priest Missionary
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- Catholic mission · history · Japanese studies · architecture
- Languages
- French · English · Japanese
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Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot (1860–1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was also known in Japan as Father Papino. He was an architect, academic, historian, editor, Japanologist. Papinot is best known for creating an Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan which was first published in French in 1899.
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The work was published in English in 1906.
Key facts
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• Name — Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot • Born — 1860 • Birthplace — Châlons-sur-Saône, France • Died — 1942 • Place of death — Montbeton, France • Occupation — Priest Missionary • Years Active — 1886–1920
Early life
Early life
Papinot was born in 1860 in Châlons-sur-Saône in France. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in September 1886, and three months later, he was sent to Japan.
Career
Career
Papinot first arrived in Japan in 1886. He taught at the Tokyo Theological Seminary for 15 years while working on his Dictionnaire japonais-français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie de Japon. In 1911, he left Japan for China. He returned to France in 1920. He died in Montbeton in 1942.
Selected works
Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Papinot, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 100+ publications in 7 languages and 1,200+ library holdings. • This list is not finished; • Dictionnaire japonais-français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie de Japon, 1899 • Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan, 1906 • Nihon seiei (Japanese hymns), 1922 (with Jean-Marie-Louis Lemaréchal)
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Chalon-sur-Saône.
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- 1.パリ外国宣教会」のパピノ神父 at CatholicKandaChurch.org ; retrieved 2012-11-7.
- 2.Pouillon, François. (2008). Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française, p. 736.
- 3.Rogala, Jozef. (2012). A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English, p. 187.
- 4.WorldCat Identities : Papinot, Edmond b. 1860; retrieved 2012-11-5.
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