Girolamo Maiorica

Girolamo Maiorica (b.1591 –4656, Nghe An) was a Jesuit missionary to Asia in Vietnam.[1]

Maiorica, often given the Portuguese name Jerônimo Majorica, arrived in Cochinchina in 1624 on the same boat as Alexandre de Rhodes. Unlike Rhodes he was not a student of Francisco de Pina (1585–1625); he studied the Vietnamese language at the Jesuit residence at Quy Nhon (known as Pulo Cambi in Portuguese) in Binh Dinh.[2] He was the first Roman Catholic in Vietnam to produce texts using the vernacular Vietnamese language written in demotic chu nom script, rather than chu Han Chinese.[3][4] He left a significant body of writings[5] preserved at the French Bibliothèque nationale in Paris.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Roland Jacques Portuguese pioneers of Vietnamese linguistics prior to 1650 2002 - p. 53 "Girolamo Maiorica, in Portuguese Jerônimo Majorica (1591-1656) was missionary first in Cochinchina from 1624 to 1629, then in Tonkin, especially in the Nghç An province, from 1631 till his death in 1656."
  2. ↑ Donald F. Lach, Edwin J. Van Kley Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III (1998), p. 240 "In 1645 Joao Cabral (1598-1669), vice-provincial of the Japan province, and four other Jesuits joined Girolamo Majorica (1591 – 1656)"
  3. ↑ Otto Zwartjes Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800 (2011), p. 292 "It has been documented that one of the first missionaries, the Italian Girolamo Majorica S.J. (1591–1656), wrote in the chu nom script (Phan 1998: 30). Francisco de Pina wrote a catechism in chu nom, but as happened in Japan and China"
  4. ↑ Marc Spindler, Annie Lenoble-Bart Chrétiens d'Outre-mer en Europe: un autre visage de l'immigration (2000), p. 152 "... texte en vietnamien romanisé, son catéchisme latino-vietnamien ; et ensuite Girolamo Maiorica (1605-1656) avec la rédaction en vietnamien démotique, le nom (écriture basée sur les idéogrammes chinois), des premiers livres chrétiens."
  5. ↑ Gregorianum - Pontificia università gregoriana (Rome). p. 813 "Space does not allow treatment of other authors between the seventeenth and twentieth century, especially Girolamo Majorica, S.J. (1591-1656), who has left a significant body of writings.
  6. ↑ Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Centre national du livre (France) Volume 85, Numéros 318 à 321 (1998), p. 50 "Girolamo Maiorica est un Jésuite italien missionnaire au Tonkin. Voir HoÀNG Xuân HJn, « Girolamo Majorica. Ses oeuvres en langue vietnamienne conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris », in Archivum Hisloricum Societatis lesu, 22,"
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