Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Voisin, Charles Antoine

​VOISIN, Charles Antoine (vwah-zang), Span- ish missionary, b. in Charlevoix, Belgium, in 1698 ; d. in Panama in 1764. He early became a Jesuit, and was attached to the South American missions, laboring in Venezuela, Central America, Peru, and Chili. In 1749 he was rector of the College of Quito, and later he was superior of the Convent of Panama. His works include " Antigiiedades del Peru" (Anvers, 1762); "Information a la Real Audiencia de Quito sobre el descubrimiento de muchos y grandes rios, e infinitas naciones barbaras aue los tiabitan " (2 vols., 1764) ; and " Propagation el Evangelio en la America meridional" (1766).

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.