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Philippe Couplet, SJ (1623–1693), known in China as Bai Yingli, was a Flemish Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire. He worked with his fellow missionaries to compile the influential Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese, published in Paris in 1687.
Philippe Couplet (1622-1693) was a Flemish Jesuit who brought the first Confucian texts to Europe in 1687. He also initiated the mission of the six mathematicians of the king to China in 1687.
Philippe Couplet, també conegut com a Philip Couplet o Philippus Couplet (Malines - Països Baixos - 1623 - Goa 1693) jesuïta flamenc, missioner a la Xina de la Dinastia Qing durant el regnat dels emperadors Shunzhi i Kangxi.
Couplet was the principal editor of the first European translation of Confucian teachings. Born in Malines, Belgium, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1640.
Philippe Couplet. Also known as. primary name: Couplet, Philippe. Details. Life dates. Biography.
Philippe Couplet entered the Jesuit Order in 1640. His interest in China was aroused by a lecture by Martino Martini, a former Jesuit missionary to China.[1] Couplet initially left for China in 1656, in a group of new Jesuit recruits led by Michał Boym, who was returning to China with the Pope's response to the Southern Ming's Yongli Emperor ...
Through his Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, Philippe Couplet was the first in history to introduce Chinese Confucian thinking to Europeans in an European language. "These articles on Couplet constitute an indispensable body of literature for the study of this great Belgian Jesuit missionary ..."
