Philippe Couplet
✓ Source-basedfallingFlemish Jesuit missionary and sinologist (1623-1693)
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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.
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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. As his works were in Latin, he is also sometimes known as Philippus Couplet.
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deceased
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Lived 1623 to 1693 · aged 69
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