|
Paul Klein (25 January 1652, in Cheb, Bohemia, now the Czech Republic – 30 August 1717, in Manila, Philippines; often used in Spanish: Pablo Clain, Latin: ''Paulus Klein'', Czech: ''Pavel Klein''), was a Jesuit missionary, pharmacist,〔H. de la Costa, S.J.: The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581-1768, Ateneo de Manila University Press, Manila 2014〕 botanist, author of an astronomic observation, writer, rector of Colegio de Cavite as well as the rector of Colegio de San José and later Jesuit Provincial Superior in the Philippines, the highest ranking Jesuit official in the country. Klein is known as an important personality of life during the 18th century Manila.〔H. de la Costa, S.J.: The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581-1768, Ateneo de Manila University Press, Manila 2014〕 Klein is known for writing a standardized Tagalog dictionary as well as the first person to describe Palau for the Europeans and to draw the historically first map of Palau,〔http://micsem.org/pubs/articles/religion/frames/cathmissionsfr.htm Francis X. Hezel, SJ , Catholic Missions in the Carolines and Marshall Islands〕 an act which practically equaled to the discovery of Palau. He is also known to write the first astronomic observation from Manila of a moon eclipse and an overview of medicinal plants in local as well as European languages as well as recipes for their usage. ==Life== Paul Klein was born in the town of Cheb, Kingdom of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) in 1652. Klein entered the Society of Jesus in 1669. He applied for a travel to the colonies in 1678. Klein traveled to the Philippines alongside the fourth Jesuit mission dispatched from Bohemia in 1678,which consisted mostly of doctors and pharmacists〔Renée Gicklhorn: Missionsapotheker. Deutsche Pharmazeuten im Lateinamerika des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1973: 65-70;〕 through Genova, Spain and Mexico (1681), arriving to the Philippines in 1682. Klein first became a pharmacist. Pharmacy in those days was closely connected to the use of herbs and botanizing. Klein thus became the first person to describe native Philippine medicinal plants, using their names in several languages including Tagalog, Visaya and Pampanga when he published his renowned ''Remedios fáciles para diferentes enfermedades ...'' in 1712. Klein was also a respected educator,a professor at the Jesuit college and later the rector of ''Colegio de Cavite'' and as well as the rector of Colegio de San José. He published a number of religious texts. He was also known to play an important role in the establishment of Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary in 1684 in Manila as the spiritual director of the congregation's founder. In 1686 Klein described the moon eclipse in Manila (published in Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, vol. 7, Paris). During the years of 1708-1712 Klein reached to the highest Jesuit position, becoming the provincial superior of the Jesuit order in the Philippines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pablo Clain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|