Category

German missionary linguists

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Albert Schweitzer

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)

German missionary in China (1803-1851)

Johannes Rebmann

German missionary and African explorer (1820-1876)

Johann Ludwig Krapf

German missionary and explorer (1810-1881)

Johann Ernst Hanxleden

German missionary

Diedrich Hermann Westermann

German missionary, Africanist, and linguist (1875–1956)

Sigismund Koelle

German academic (1820-1902)

Samuel Kleinschmidt

German/Danish missionary (1814–1886)

German missionary

Hermann Gundert

German missionary, scholar, and linguist (1814–1893) who wrote the first Malayalam-English dictionary.

Heinrich August Jäschke

German missionary (1817–1883)

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen

German missionary (1834-1918)

German missionary

Germany missionary

Ferdinand Kittel

missionary (1832-1903)

Johann Gottlieb Christaller

German missionary (1827-1895)

Ernst Johann Eitel

German missionary

Karl Wilhelm Isenberg

German missionary and linguist (1806-1864)

German missionary (1818–1895)

Bernhard Havestadt

German missionary

Heinrich Rudolph Wullschlägel

Bishop of the Moravian Church, botanist, translator (1805-1864)

Hermann Mögling

German missionary (1811–1881)

Heinrich Schmelen

Missionary and Bible translator

Surinamese author and writer (1837-1917)

Johann Phillip Fabricius

German missionary

German-born Chinese archbishop

Johannes Zimmermann

German missionary, linguist and religious servant (1825–1876)

John-Baptist Hoffmann

German Jesuit priest, missionary, and ethnologist

Schön, Jacob Friederich [James Frederick] (1803–1889), missionary and philologist

Rudolf Christian Friedrich Lechler

German missionary (1824-1908)