Taberd, Jean-Louis
Jean-Louis Taberd (June 18, 1794 - July 31, 1840) was a French missionary active in Vietnam in the early 19th century. Tabard was born in Saint-Étienne, France, and ordained priest in Lyon in 1817. In 1820, he joined the La Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris, who appointed him to Cochinchina - part of modern-day Vietnam. He became the Victor Apostolic of Cochinchina in 1827, in 1830 Bishop of the titular see of Isauropolis (a defunct bishopric in Turkey), and in 1838 the Vicar Apostolic of Bengal. In 1825, the Emperor of Vietnam, Minh Mạng (1791 - 1841) banned all missionaries. Those that remained, mostly French Catholics, were in constant danger. Between 1833 and 1838, no less than seven were sentenced to death. Tabard fled in the early 1830s to Penang, then Calcutta. There, 1838, he published his famous Latin-Vietnamese dictionary, Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum. Tabard died in Calcutta. Although Tabard did not return to Vietnam, in the late 19th century the Catholic college Institut Taberd was founded in Saigon by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and, since 1943, educated the Vietnamese elite.
'The Bishop's Map', composite of Vietnamese and western cartography.
安南帝國畫圖 / An Nam Đại Quốc họa đồ seu Tabula Geographica Imperii Anamitici ab Auctore Dictionarii Latino-Anamitici disposita 1838.
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Known as the 'Bishop's Map', this is an exceptional and important 1838 map of Vietnam by Jean-Louis Taberd, a French missionary. Printed in Calcutta, India, the map is based on Taberd's 10 years of missionary work in Cochinchina, modern-day southern Vietnam, under the Nguyễn Emperors, and is thus the first major advancement on the mapping of Vietnam cartography since the 1653 Alexander de Rhodes map. The map illustrates the Nguyễn Empire at the height of its power and influence, near half a century before the French interventions and subsequent colonization known as 'French Indochina'. (more details)