William Carey
Sign in to saveEnglish Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1761-08-17
- Died
- 1834-06-09
- 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
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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 61,508x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,873x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,978x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,533x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
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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
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 August 1761
- Died
- 9 June 1834
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Northamptonshire
- Place of death
- Kolkata
- Occupation
- orientalist
- Employer
- Fort William College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
Article
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.
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