Caspar Castner

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1655 – 1709

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Who was Caspar Castner?

Rev. Caspar Castner or Kastner, SJ was a missionary,

He entered the Society of Jesus, September 17, 1681, and studied theology at Ingolstadt where he finished his studies, 22 March 1694. For a short time he taught logic at the Gymnasium in Ratisbon; after this he devoted himself to the work of missions and sailed in 1696 for China at the head of a company of brother Jesuits from Portugal and Genoa. In China he laboured with great success on the island of Shang-chuen and in the city of Fatshan, then a competitor of Canton. In 1702 he went with Father Franciscus Noel to Lisbon and Rome in order, as representative of the bishops of Nanking and Macau, to obtain some settlement of the question of Chinese Rites. In 1706 he returned to China, taking with him a number of missionaries.

Besides his apostolic work, Father Castner worked in the sciences of navigation, astronomy, and cartography. He called the attention of the Portuguese Government to the fact that the voyage to Macau would be much shorter if the vessels followed a direct course from the Cape of Good Hope by the way of the Sunda Islands, avoiding Mozambique and Goa, and the result showed that he was right.

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Born
1655
Munich
Died
1709

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on July 23, 2013

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