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William Carey
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English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
OverviewAI-generated
William Carey (1761–1834) was a British botanist, translator, and missionary who worked as a Bible translator. Born in Northamptonshire and a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, he died in Kolkata. Carey was affiliated with the Reformed Baptists and served as an employee of Fort William College. He spoke and wrote in both English and Bangla.
His notable works include *Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens*. Open Library records list 44 works by Carey, while Crossref lists five. He is also associated with the titles *Beautiful Killing* and *Jesus in Cowboy Boots*. Carey is quoted as saying, “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.”
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 44
Top works
- Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion
- William Carey
- Beautiful Killing
- Jesus in Cowboy Boots
- Conversion of the Heathens
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,917x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,815x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,531x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,942x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.”
- “The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1761-08-17 ) 17 August 1761, Paulerspury , England
- Died
- 9 June 1834 (1834-06-09) (aged 72), Serampore , Bengal Presidency, British India
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.
He went to Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1793, but was forced to leave the British Indian territory by non-Baptist Christian missionaries. He joined the Baptist missionaries in the Danish colony of Frederiksnagore in Serampore. One of his first contributions was to start schools for impoverished children where they were taught reading, writing, accounting and Christianity. He opened the first theological university in Serampore offering divinity degrees, and campaigned to end the practice of sati.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Carey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.