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Gilbertus Happart

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Nationality
  
Dutch

Spouse(s)
  
Maria Hoochkamer


Name
  
Gilbertus Happart

Died
  
1653, Taiwan

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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Gilbertus Happart Wikipedia