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JOHANN ADAM VON SCHALL (1591-1666)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN

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ADAM VON
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SCHALL (1591-1666)  , Jesuit missionary in
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China,
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born of
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noble parents in
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Cologne . At the
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age of twenty he joined the Society of Jesus, and in 1628 went out to China . Apart from successful missionary
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work, he became the trusted counsellor of the
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emperor, was created a
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mandarin, and held an important
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post in connexion with the mathematical school . His position enabled him to procure from the emperor permission for the
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Jesuits to build churches and to preach throughout the
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country . Proselytes to the number of 1oo,000 are said to have been obtained within fourteen years . The emperor, however, died in 1661, and
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Schall's circumstances at once changed . He was imprisoned and condemned to
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death . The
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sentence was not carried out, but he died after his
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release owing to the privations he had endured . A collection of his MS. remains was deposited in the Vatican Library .

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