Английская Википедия:Alexandre de Rhodes
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox Christian leader Alexandre de Rhodes (15 March 1593[1] – 5 November 1660) was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, published in Rome, in 1651.[2][3]
Biography
Alexandre de Rhodes was born in Avignon, Papal States (now in France). According to some sources, he was of Jewish origin. His paternal side was from Aragón, Spain.[4] He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Rome on 24 April 1612 to dedicate his life to missionary work.
In 1624, he was sent to the East Asia, arriving in the Nguyễn-controlled domain of Đàng Trong (Cochinchina) on a boat with fellow Jesuit Girolamo Maiorica. De Rhodes studied Vietnamese under Francisco de Pina[5] before returning to Portuguese Macau.
Following the successful visit of fellow Jesuits Giuliano Baldinotti and Julio Koga to Đàng Ngoài (Tonkin) in 1626, the superior André Palmeiro sent Alexandre de Rhodes and Pero Marques, Sr. to evangelize in this domain of North Vietnam.[6] The two missionaries landed in Thanh Hoá on March 19, 1627 (the Feast of Saint Joseph) and arrived the capital Thăng Long (nowadays Hanoi) on July 2 (the Feast of Visitation). De Rhodes worked there until 1630, when he was forced to leave. During these three years he was in and around the court at Hanoi during the rule of lord Trịnh Tráng. It was during that time that he composed the Ngắm Mùa Chay, a popular Catholic devotion to this day, meditating upon the Passion of Christ in the Vietnamese language.[7] He was expelled from Vietnam in 1630 as Trịnh Tráng became concerned about him being a spy for the Nguyen. Rhodes in his reports said he converted more than 6,000 Vietnamese. Daily conversation in Vietnam "resembles the singing of birds", wrote Alexandre de Rhodes.
From Đàng Ngoài Rhodes went to Macau, where he spent ten years. He then returned to Vietnam, this time to Đàng Trong, mainly around Huế. He spent six years in this part until he aroused the displeasure of lord Nguyễn Phúc Lan and was condemned to death.
As his sentence was reduced to exile, Rhodes returned to Rome by 1649 and pleaded for increased funding for Catholic missions to Vietnam, telling somewhat exaggerated stories about the natural riches to be found in Vietnam. This plea by Alexandre de Rhodes helped to found the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1659. As neither the Portuguese nor the Pope showed interest in the project, Alexandre de Rhodes, with Pope Alexander VII's agreement, found secular volunteers in Paris in the persons of François Pallu and Pierre Lambert de la Motte, the first members of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who were sent to the Far-East as Apostolic vicars.[8][9][10]
Alexandre de Rhodes himself was sent to Persia instead of back to Vietnam. Rhodes died in Isfahan, Persia in 1660 and was buried in the New Julfa Armenian Cemetery.
In 1943, the French colony of Indochina issued a 30c postage stamp honoring him. In 2001 Vietnamese artist Nguyen Dinh Dang created a painting in homage to Alexandre de Rhodes and Nguyen Van Vinh.[11]
Works
While in Vietnam, de Rhodes developed an early Vietnamese alphabet based on work by earlier Portuguese missionaries such as Gaspar do Amaral, António Barbosa and Francisco de Pina. De Rhodes compiled a catechism, "Catechismus pro ijs, qui volunt suscipere baptismum in octo dies divisis", and a trilingual dictionary and grammar, Шаблон:Lang. Both published in Rome in 1651, de Rhodes's works reflect his favor of this new Latin-script alphabet instead of Nôm script.[12] Later refined as chữ Quốc ngữ, it eventually became the de facto written form of Vietnamese language in the 20th century. Meanwhile, Maiorica's catechism and devotional texts reflect the favor of chữ Nôm, which was the dominant script of Vietnamese Christian literature until the 20th century.[13]
De Rhodes also wrote several books about Vietnam and his travels there, including:
- Шаблон:Lang (Rome, 1650)
- Шаблон:Lang (Lyon, 1652)
- Шаблон:Lang (Lyon, 1651), translated by Henri Albi
- Шаблон:Lang (Paris, 1653), translated into English as Rhodes of Viet Nam: The Travels and Missions of Father Alexandre de Rhodes in China and Other Kingdoms of the Orient (1666)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Glorious Death of Andrew, Catechist) (pub. 1653)
Notes
Sources
- Tigers in the Rice, W. Sheldon p. 26 (1969)
- Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Alexandre de Rhodes
- Trần Duy Nhiên and Roland Jacques (2007). "Phản hồi bài viết của Gs Ts Phạm Văn Hường". Archived from the original.
- Nguyễn Đình Đầu (2007). "Về bài báo vu khống và phỉ báng cha Ðắc Lộ". Nguyệt san Công giáo và Dân tộc số 145.
- Antôn Bùi Kim Phong (2017). "Alexandre de Rhodes S.J. Nhà truyền giáo".
External links
Шаблон:Christianity in Vietnam Шаблон:Authority control
- ↑ Current scholarship suggests Rhodes may have been born in 1593. See Eduardo Torralba, S.I., "La Date de naissance du Père de Rhodes: 15 mars 1591, est-elle exacte?", in Bulletin de la Société des Études Indochinoises, n.s. 35 (1960), 683–689, about the disagreement regarding the date of de Rhodes' birth. While some sources, including the Catholic Encyclopedia, indicate that the date was 1591, specialists such as Torralba, Peter Phan, Claude Larre, Pham Dinh Khiem, and Joseph Dehergne give the later date of 1593.
- ↑ Wörterbücher: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Lexikographie by Franz Josef Hausmann, p.2583 [1]
- ↑ Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind By James Cowles p.501 [2]
- ↑ Đỗ Quang Chính (1999). "Tu sĩ Dòng Tên Alexandre de Rhodes từ trần" Шаблон:Webarchive.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book, "Adaptations of Christian liturgy", n. 5.
- ↑ Viet Nam By Nhung Tuyet Tran, Anthony Reid p.222
- ↑ An Empire Divided by James Patrick Daughton, p.31
- ↑ Asia in the Making of Europe, p.229–230
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Sidwell P., Jenny M. The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages. BRILL. 2014. V. 2. P. 909
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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