GONÇALVEZ, JOAQUÍN ALONSO. - Sinologist, b. at Tojal (Traz-os-Montes, Portugal) on 23 March 1781, d. at Macao on 3 Oct. 1841. Admitted to the Congregation of the Mission on 17 May 1799, he set out for China in 1812, settling at Macao while waiting to be able to enter the imperial court at Beijing. He therefore devoted himself to the study of mathematics and the sciences. But when this purpose fell through, he turned his interest to the Chinese language, which he cultivated with true passion.

The principal works are: Grammatica latina ad uvum Sinensium iuvenum (Macao 1828); Arte china constante de alphabeto e grammatica, comprehendendo modelos das diferentes composiciones (ibid. 1829); Diccionario portuguez-china no estilo vulgar mandarin e classico general (ibid. 1831); Vocabularium latino-sinicum pronuntiatione mandarina latinis litteris (ibid. 1837); Lexicon manuale latino-sinicum continens omnia vocabula utilia et primitiva, etiam Scripturae sacrae (ibid. 1839); Lexicon magnum latino-sinicum (ibid. 1841). There remain in manuscript: Lexicon magnum sinico-latinum and Versao do Novo Testamento en china.

Bibliography

BIBL.: E. Rosset, Notices bibliogr. sur les écrivains de la Congr. de la Mission, Angoulême 1878, pp. 118-26. Annibale Bugnini

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