DU JARRIC, Pierre (Petrus Jarricus). Toulouse 2.3.1566 — Saintes (Charente-Maritime) 2.3.1617. S.J. French Historian of Mission. Joined Jesuits in 1582. When his hope to become a missionary was not accepted he turned to writing mission history. Ordained priest around 1593 he taught many years philosophy and moral theology at Jesuit college in Bordeaux. Never travelled himself. Beside mission his work contains much about colonial history and ethnography.
Publications: Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes orientales, que autres païs de la descouverte des Portugois... 1-3. 12+699+17, 10+699+41, 12+1067+37 p. Bordeaux 1608-14 and many editions, also Latin translation by M. Matthia Martinez. Thesaurus rerum Indicarum. Coloniae Agr. 1615, long extract translated in English Akbar and the Jesuits. An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar by Father P. Du J., S.J. Translated by C. H. Payne. 48+288 p. L. 1926.
– His only other work is the French translation of the Soul’s Paradise wrongly ascribed to Albertus Magnus. Bordeaux 1616.
Sources: Payne’s Introduction; Wikipedia (see also French version).
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