Jean-Louis Taberd

Jean-Louis Taberd (1794–1840)[2] was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, and titular bishop of Isauropolis, in partibus infidelium.

He joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1820, and was appointed to become a missionary in Cochinchina,[a] modern Vietnam.

[2][3] With the persecutions of the Emperor of Vietnam Minh Mạng, Mgr Taberd was forced to escape the country.

Jean-Louis Taberd first went to Penang and then Calcutta, where, with the help of Lord Auckland and the Asiatic Society he was able to publish his own Latin-Vietnamese dictionary in 1838.

[6] In the late 19th century, the renowned Catholic college Institut Taberd was founded in Saigon by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and, since 1943, to educate a Vietnamese elite.

Taberd's 1838 map of Cochin China (or "Cocincina"), interior ̣(Đàng Trong) and exterior (Đàng Ngoài) in higher resolution with colors. Highest resolution map (3500 × 6111) .
The 1838 Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum .
A page of Jean-Louis Taberd's 1838 Vietnamese-Latin dictionary ( Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum ), based on the manuscript dictionary of Pigneau de Béhaine . [ 1 ]
Map of the Vietnamese Empire, in Taberd's 1838 Dictionarium Latino-Annamiticum .