Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein
Academic
1703 – 1774
Who was Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein?
Ferdinand Augustin Haller von Hallerstein, Jesuit missionary in China and Chinese astronomer from Carniola (then Habsburg Monarchy, now Slovenia), who spent 35 years at the Emperor Qianlong court as the Head of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau and Board of Mathematics and created an armillary sphere with rotating rings at the Beijing observatory; the Chinese first demographer who precisely calculated the exact number of Chinese population of the time (198,214,553). He also participated in Chinese cartography, being missionary, “cultural ambassador” and mandarin between the years 1739 -1774.
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- Born
- Aug 27, 1703
Ljubljana - Also known as
- August Allerstein
- Religion
- Roman Catholic Church
- Ethnicity
- Slovenes
- Died
- Oct 29, 1774
Beijing
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on July 23, 2013
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