Gilbertus Happart

Gilbertus Happart (also recorded as Gillis or Gilbert Happart) was a seventeenth-century Dutch missionary to Formosa (now known as Taiwan). He was stationed in the village of Favorlang (modern-day Huwei) and wrote a dictionary of the Favorlang language of the inhabitants.

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Birth place
Netherlands , Dutch Republic , Goes
Nationality
Netherlands
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1653
Place of death
Taiwan

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