Christian Herdtrich

Christian Wolfgang Herdtrich[a] (25 June 1625 – 18 July 1684) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary to the Qing Empire.

Christian Wolfgang Herdtrich was born at Graz, Styria, in the Austrian Empire on 25 June 1625.

[citation needed] Herdtrich entered the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus on 27 October 1641, and in 1656 was chosen for the Chinese mission.

In 1671, he was called to the imperial court in Beijing as a mathematician; there, he joined a group of scholarly Jesuits with whom the Kangxi Emperor surrounded himself.

He collaborated with Philippe Couplet, Prospero Intorcetta, and François de Rougemont in compiling Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (Latin: Confucius Sinarum Philosophus), a major introduction to Chinese history and thought that was published in Paris in 1687.

Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese, or, Chinese Knowledge Explained in Latin (1687), to which Herdtrich contributed.
The map of China in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus , with Couplet 's notes about Chinese demographics .