He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China.
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China.
In 1772 he translated The Art of War, one of the most influential war strategy and tactics treatises in military history, written around the 6th century BCE and attributed to General Sun Tzu, into French.
His other writings are to be found chiefly in the Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences et les arts des Chinois (15 volumes, Paris, 1776–1791).
His Manchu dictionary Dictionnaire tartare-mantchou-français (Paris, 1789) was a work of great value, the language having been previously quite unknown in Europe.
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (sometimes Amyot; ; February 1718 - October 9, 1793) was a French Jesuit missionary in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. == Life == Joseph Marie Amiot was born at Toulon.
He died in Peking in 1793, two days after the departure of the British Macartney Embassy.
The first successful translation to English would not be achieved before another 138 years, in 1910.
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