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See also:GUTZLAFF, KARL See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST (1803–1851) , See also:German missionary to See also:China, was See also:born at See also:Pyritz in See also:Pomerania on the 8th of See also:July 1803. When still apprenticed to a saddler in See also:Stettin, he made known his missionary inclinations to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Prussia, through whom he went to the Padagogium at See also:Halle, and afterwards to the See also:mission See also:institute of Janike in See also:Berlin. In 1826, under the auspices of the See also:Netherlands Missionary Society, Pe went to See also:Java, where he was able to learn See also:Chinese.
Leaving the society in 1828, he went to See also:Singapore, and in August of the same See also:year removed to See also:Bangkok, where he translated the See also:Bible into Siamese. In 1829 he married an See also:English See also:lady, who aided him in the preparation of a See also:dictionary of See also:Cochin Chinese, but she died in August 1831 before its completion. Shortly after her See also:death he sailed to See also:Macao in China, where, and subsequently at Hong See also:Kong, he worked at a See also:translation of the Bible into Chinese, published a Chinese monthly See also:magazine, and wrote in Chinese various books on subjects of useful knowledge. In 1834 he published at See also:London a See also:Journal of Three Voyages along the See also:Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833. He was appointed in 1835 See also:joint Chinese secretary to the English See also:commission, and during the See also:opium See also:war of 1840–42 and the negotiations connected with the See also:peace that followed he rendered valuable service by his knowledge of the See also:country and See also:people. The Chinese authorities refusing to permit foreigners to penetrate into the interior, Gutzlaff in 1844 founded an institute for training native missionaries, which was so successful that during the first four years as many as See also:forty-eight Chinese were sent out from it to See also:work among their See also:fellow-countrymen. He died at Hong Kong on the 9th of August 1851.
Gutzlaff also wrote A See also:Sketch of Chinese See also:History, See also:Ancient and See also:Modern (London, 1834), and a similar work published in German at See also:Stuttgart in 1847; China Opened (1838); and the See also:Life of Taow-Kwang (1851; German edition published at See also:Leipzig in 1852). A See also:complete collection of his Chinese writings is contained in the library at See also:Munich.
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