JOHANN See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

ADAM VON See also:

• JOHANN ADAM VON SCHALL (1591-1666)

SCHALL (1591-1666)  , Jesuit missionary in See also:

• CHINA

China, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble parents in See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty he joined the Society of Jesus, and in 1628 went out to China . Apart from successful missionary See also:

• WORK

work, he became the trusted counsellor of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor, was created a See also:

• MANDARIN

mandarin, and held an important See also:

• POST

post in connexion with the mathematical school . His position enabled him to procure from the emperor permission for the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits to build churches and to preach throughout the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . Proselytes to the number of 1oo,000 are said to have been obtained within fourteen years . The emperor, however, died in 1661, and See also:

• SCHALL, JOHANN ADAM VON (1591-1666)

Schall's circumstances at once changed . He was imprisoned and condemned to See also:

• DEATH

death . The See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence was not carried out, but he died after his See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release owing to the privations he had endured . A collection of his MS. remains was deposited in the Vatican Library .