• Jige Lin

    (Franz Stadlin)

    Chinese

    耶稣会林公之墓

    林公讳济名,号雨苍,系大西洋热耳玛尼亚国人。年二十九岁入会,随耶稣会士传教。于康熙四十六年入中国,进京内廷供奉。于乾隆五年三月十八日去世。蒙欽赐银餉贰百两,大级十端。在会五十三年,享寿八十二。

    Chinese—English

    Tomb of Brother Lin of the Society of Jesus
    Brother Lin, personal name Jiming, style name Yucang, a native of the Kingdom of Germany from the Atlantic Ocean. He was initiated into the Society at the age of twenty-nine, and preached with the Jesuit missionaries. He came to China in the forty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign, and served the imperial court in Beijing. He passed away on the eighteenth day of the third month in the fifth year of the Qianlong reign. He was granted 200 taels of silver by the emperor and ten large ceremonial tablets. He was in the Society for fifty-three years, and lived to the age of eighty-two.

    Latin

    D.O.M.
    F[RATER] FRANCISC[US] STADLIN, HELVETI[US], TUGIENSIS, VIXIT IN SOCIETATE LIII AN[N]OS, ET EX HIS PEKINI EXEGIT XXXIII. HABILIS ATQUE INDEFESSUS IN ARTE AUTOMATARIA. OBIIT IN D[OMI]NO XIV. APRIL[IS] A[NNO] C[HRISTI] MDCCXL, AETATIS SUAE LXXXII.

    Latin—English

    To God Most Good and Most Great
    Brother Franz Stadlin, a Helvetian, a Swiss, lived in the Society for fifty-three years, and from these he spent thirty-three years in Beijing. He was skilled and tireless in the art of automatons. He passed away in the Lord on the fourteenth day of April, in the year of Christ 1740, of the age eighty-two.