| Chinese name | |||||||||
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| Luo Mingjian | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 羅明堅 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 罗明坚 | ||||||||
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Michele Ruggieri, SJ (born Pompilio Ruggieri and known in China as Luo Mingjian; 1543 – 11 May 1607) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary. A founding father of the Jesuit China missions, co-author of the first European–Chinese dictionary, and first European translator of the Four Books of Confucianism, he has been described as the first European sinologist.