Carmelo Elorduy, S.J.

Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

 (January 25, 1901-September 1, 1989) was a Spanish Sinologist. Elorduy was born in Mungia

Mungia

Mungia is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Thetown has 15,000 inhabitants.-Geography:...

 and his first trip to China was in 1926, where he worked at the Jesuit mission located in Wuhu City, Anhui

Anhui

Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...

. He returned to Spain in 1932 to finish his degree in Theology and Philosophy and to become a priest with the Society of Jesus. He returned to China in 1934 and remained there until 1951 when he moved to Macao

Mação

Mação is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 400.0 km² and a total population of 7,763 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of eight parishes, and is located in the Santarém District....

 and the following year to Taichung

Taichung

-Demographics:Taichung’s population was an estimated 1,040,725 in August 2006. There are slightly more females in the city than males.24.32% of residents are children, while 16.63% are young people, 52.68% are middle-age, and 6.73% are elderly....

. For health reasons he moved back to Spain in 1959 and while resting in Oña

Oña

Oña is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2009 census , the municipality has a population of 1,256 inhabitants.It is home to the monastery of San Salvador de Oña....

 and encouraged by his brother Eleuterio, he began translating some of the Chinese Classics. Most of his translations of the Chinese Classics became the first to be done directly from Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of ancient Chinese, making it different from any modern spoken form of Chinese...

into the Spanish language.

Works

• La gnosis taoísta del Tao Te Ching. Facultad de Teología, Oña, 1961.
• Chuang-tzu. Literato, filósofo y místico taoísta. East Asian Pastoral Institute, Manila, 1967.
• Chuang-tzu. Literato, filósofo y místico taoísta. Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, 1972.
• Humanismo político oriental. Editorial B. A. C. (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos), Madrid, 1967.
• Lao Tse / Chuang Tzu: Dos grandes maestros del taoísmo. Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1977.
• Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching. Historia del Pensamiento, Ed. Virgilio Ortega, Ediciones Orbis, Barcelona, 1984.
• Libro de los Cambios. Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1983.
• Moti. Política del amor universal. Editorial Tecnos, Madrid, 1987.
• Odas selectas del Romancero chino. Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, 1974.
• Romancero chino. Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1984.
• Sesenta y cuatro conceptos de la ideología taoísta. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Andrés Bello, Caracas, 1972.
• Tao Te Ching. Lao-tse. Ed. Tecnos, Madrid, 1996.