Gilbertus Happart | |
Birth Place: | Goes, Dutch Republic |
Death Date: | c. 1653 |
Death Place: | Taiwan |
Nationality: | Dutch |
Spouse: | Maria Hoochkamer[1] |
Gilbertus Happart (also recorded as Gillis or Gilbert Happart) was a seventeenth-century Dutch missionary to Formosa (now known as Taiwan). He was stationed in the village of Favorlang (modern-day Huwei) and wrote a dictionary of the Favorlang language of the inhabitants.[2]