Robert Jacquinot de Besange

This article is about the French Jesuit. For the French cyclist, see Robert Jacquinot.

Robert Jacquinot de Besange
SJ
Sculpture of de Besange c.1940 by Zhang Chongren
Personal life
BornRobert Charles Joseph Emile Jacquinot de Besange
(1878-03-15)15 March 1878
Saintes, French Third Republic
Died10 September 1946(1946-09-10) (aged 68)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityFrench
Religious life
ReligionRoman Catholic
OrderSociety of Jesus

Robert Charles Joseph Emile Jacquinot de Besange, SJ (15 March 1878 – 10 September 1946), also known as Jacquinot de Besange and in China as Rao Jia-ju (Chinese: 饶家驹), was a French Jesuit who set up a successful model of safety zones that saved over half-a-million Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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