Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot (1860–1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was also known in Japan as .パリ外国宣教会」のパピノ神父 at CatholicKandaChurch.org ; retrieved 2012-11-7. He was an architect, academic, historian, editor, Japanologist.
Papinot is best known for creating an Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan which was first published in French in 1899. The work was published in English in 1906.
Early life Papinot was born in 1860 in Châlons-sur-Saône in France.Pouillon, François. (2008). Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française, p. 736.
He was ordained as a Catholic priest in September 1886, and three months later, he was sent to Japan.
Career Papinot first arrived in Japan in 1886. He taught at the Tokyo Theological Seminary for 15 years while working on his Dictionnaire japonais-français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie de Japon.Rogala, Jozef. (2012). A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English, p. 187.
In 1911, he left Japan for China. He returned to France in 1920. He died in Montbeton in 1942.
Selected works In an overview of writings by and about Papinot, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 100+ publications in 7 languages and 1,200+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities : Papinot, Edmond b. 1860; retrieved 2012-11-5. This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it. Dictionnaire japonais-français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie de Japon, 1899 Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan, 1906 Nihon seiei (Japanese hymns), 1922 (with Jean-Marie-Louis Lemaréchal)
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External links Papinot, Edmond at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Nobliaire du japon at Unterstein.net 神田教会歴代主任司祭 at CatholicKandaChurch.org