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JEAN JOSEPH MARIE AMIOT (1718-1793)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 858 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:JOSEPH See also:MARIE See also:AMIOT (1718-1793)  , See also:French Jesuit missionary, was See also:born at See also:Toulon in See also:February 1718 . He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to See also:China . He soon won the confidence of the See also:emperor Kien-See also:lung and spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life at See also:Pekin, where he died on the Oh of See also:October 1793 . See also:Amiot was eminently fitted to make See also:good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his See also:works did more than had ever been done before to make known to the Western See also:world the thought and life of the Far See also:East . His Dictionnaire tatare-mantchou See also:francais (See also:Paris, 1789) was a See also:work of See also:great value, the See also:language having been previously quite unknown in See also:Europe . His other writings are to be found chiefly in the Memoires concernant l'histoire, See also:les sciences et les arts de Chinois (15 vols., Paris, 1776-1791) . The See also:Vie de See also:Confucius, the twelfth See also:volume of that collection, is See also:complete and accurate . For full bibliography see De Backer and C . Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Cie. de Jesus, i . 294-303; for his works on See also:Chinese See also:music see F . J . See also:Fetis, Biog. univers. See also:des musiciens (See also:Brussels, 1837-1844) .

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