Edmund Papinot

Jacques Edmund-Joseph Papinot (1860-1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest, academic, historian, editor, Japanologist.Pouillon, François. (2008). Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française, p. 736.

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.

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.

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. 
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 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 J. Lemaréchal)

References

Other websites
  Papinot, Edmund at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) 

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