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SCHALL, JOHANN ADAM VON (1591-1666) , Jesuit missionary in China
born
noble
Cologne . At the age of twenty he joined the Society of Jesus, and in 1628 went out to China
work
mandarin
post
Jesuits
country . Proselytes to the number of 1oo,000 are said to have been obtained within fourteen years. The emperor, however, died in 1661, and Schall's circumstances at once changed. He was imprisoned and condemned to death. The sentence was not carried out, but he died after his release
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