Associate Professor of East Asian History, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
1669 — 1720
Jesuit mathematician and cartographer in China.
1655 — 1728
Jesuit missionary in China.
1652 — 1730
French Roman Catholic mission administrator in China.
1614 — 1661
Jesuit missionary, geographer, and historian of China.
1685 — 1741
Second papal legate in Peking (Beijing), China.
1626 — 1684
Cofounder of the Missions Etrangeres de Paris (Paris Foreign Mission Society) and mission administrator in China and Southeast Asia.
1663 — 1738
Jesuit missionary and cartographer in China.
1624 — 1676
1543 — 1607
Jesuit pioneer missionary in China.
1592 — 1666
Jesuit missionary and astronomer in China.
1577 — 1628
Jesuit missionary in China, the first European to see the Nestorian monument of 781.
1623 — 1688
Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and diplomat at the court of China.