Edmund Papinot

Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot (1860–1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was also known in Japan as . He was an architect, academic, historian, editor, Japanologist.

Papinot is best known for creating an Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan which was first published in French in 1899. The work was published in English in 1906.

Early life Papinot was born in 1860 in Châlons-sur-Saône in France.

He was ordained as a Catholic priest in September 1886, and three months later, he was sent to Japan.

In 1911, he left Japan for China. He returned to France in 1920. This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it. Dictionnaire japonais-français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie de Japon, 1899 Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan, 1906 Nihon seiei (Japanese hymns), 1922 (with Jean-Marie-Louis Lemaréchal)