Ferdinand Avguštin Hallerstein (Allerstein) was a Slovene Jesuit missionary in China. Slovenes or Slovenians ( Slovene Slovenci, dual Slovenca, singular Slovenec, feminine Slovenke, dual Slovenki The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order A missionary is a member of a Religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith someone who proselytizes. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National He was born in Ljubljana in 1703, and died in China, in 1774. Ljubljana ( is the largest and Capital city of Slovenia. It is located in the center of the country and is a mid-sized city of some 270000 inhabitants
Life
His mathematical and astronomical acquirements recommended him to the imperial court at Beijing, where he won the esteem of the Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong (Chinese 乾隆 Qiánlóng, Wade-Giles' Ch'ien-Lung', Mongolian Tengeriig Tetgesen Khaan, born Hongli (弘历 September who made him a mandarin, and Chief of the Department of Mathematics, a post he held for many years. A Mandarin was a Bureaucrat in Imperial China, and also in the monarchist days of Vietnam where the system of Imperial examinations and
He made a census of China for the 25th and 26th years of the reign of Qianlong. His list and the Chinese translation reached Europe in 1779. The Manchu rulers objected to census-taking, or at least to census-publication, lest the Chinese might recognize their strength and grow restless. It confirms all the calculations of one of his predecessors, Father Amiot and affords a proof of the progressive increase of the Chinese population. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot ( Chinese: 錢[[wiktionary 德|德]] 明, Pinyin Qian Deming February 1718 - October 9, 1793) was In the 25th year he found 196,837,977 souls, and in the following year, 198,214,624. Hallerstein's census is to be found in "Déscription Générale de la Chine", p. 283.
This article incorporates text from the entry August Hallerstein in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia
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