HUC, ÉVARISTE-RÉGIS. - Missionary, traveler and writer, b. at Caylus (France) on 1 June 1813, he was admitted to the Congregation of the Mission in 1836, and took his vows in 1838. He worked with zeal and a spirit of initiative in the Vincentian family for 17 years (1853). D. at Paris on 25 March 1860. Having gone to China from 1844 to 1846 with his confrere Joseph Gabet (1808-53), he made a journey into Tibet to attempt a mission among the Tartars.
The recollections of this expedition, which remained famous and very popular in missionary narrative, were set down by him in several volumes: Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Tibet et la Chine (2 vols., Paris 1850, latest edition by J. M. Planchet, Peking 1924, and by H. d'Ardenne de Tizac, Paris 1925); L'empire chinois (continuation of the preceding work, 2 vols., ibid. 1854), awarded a prize by the Académie de France (latest edition by J. Planchet, Peking 1925); Les quarante-deux points d'enseignement profétés par Boudha, a translation from the Mongolian in collaboration with Gabet and published by the latter in the Annales de philosophie chrétienne (Apr., May 1850); Le christianisme au Tibet en Tartarie et en Chine (4 vols., Paris 1857).
Bibliography2 workssnon., Notices bibliographiques sur les écrivains de la Congrégation de la Mission, Angoulême 1878, p. 139 ff.; snon., Mémoires de la Congré
BIBL.: snon., Notices bibliographiques sur les écrivains de la Congrégation de la Mission, Angoulême 1878, p. 139 ff.; snon., Mémoires de la Congrégation de la Mission. La Chine, III, Paris 1912, p. 407 ff.
Bugnini, Annibale. “Huc, evariste-régis.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1492. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/huc-evariste-regis.
MLA
Bugnini, Annibale. “Huc, evariste-régis.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1492. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/huc-evariste-regis.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_huc_evariste_regis,
author = {Bugnini, Annibale},
title = {Huc, evariste-régis},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1492},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/huc-evariste-regis}
}
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