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This is a list of scholarly, missionary and other works by Robert Morrison : Robert Morrison (1812). Horae Sinicae: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese. London. Robert Morrison (1813). Hsin i Chao Shu; Robert Morrison (1815). A Grammar of the Chinese Language. Serampore: Printed at the Mission-Press. pp. 280
This is list of scholarly, missionary and other works by Robert Morrison (missionary): Robert Morrison (1812). Horae Sinicae: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese. London. Robert Morrison (1813). Hsin i Chao Shu; Robert Morrison (1815). Translations from the Original Chinese, with Notes. Canton. Robert Morrison (1815). A ...
This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.
Robert Morrison in 27 years of missionary effort could only report 25 converts and other early missionaries had similar experiences. [18] The pace of conversions picked up with time but by 1900 there were still only 100,000 Chinese Protestant Christians after nearly a century of endeavor by thousands of missionaries. [ 19 ]
Robert Morrison (1782-1834) is credited with several historical firsts in addition to the first bidirectional Chinese and English dictionary. He was the first Protestant missionary in China, started the first Chinese-language periodical in 1815, [5] collaborated with William Milne to write the first translation of the Bible into Chinese in 1823, helped to found the English-language The Canton ...
Robert Morrison – first Protestant missionary in China; John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (now part of Vanuatu) Francis Young Pressly – American missionary to Punjab, Pakistan 1945–1972; Carl Christian Reindorf - Gold Coast historian, minister and missionary; Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary ...
Robert Morrison (1782–1834) who went to China in 1807; John Smith (1790–1824) was a LMS missionary whose experiences in the West Indies, beginning in 1817, attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.
Liang Fa (1789–1855), also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist. He was ordained by Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary in the Qing Empire. His tract Good Words to Admonish the Age was influential on Hong Xiuquan, who went on to lead the Taiping ...