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William Carey
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English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
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William Carey was a male botanist, translator, missionary, and Bible translator from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Born in Northamptonshire in 1761, he worked in the field of botany and served as an employee of Fort William College. His professional activities involved writing in both Bangla and English languages.
Carey died in Kolkata in 1834. He was affiliated with the Reformed Baptists worldview. His notable works include *Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion*, *Beautiful Killing*, *Jesus in Cowboy Boots*, and *Conversion of the Heathens*. He is described by sources such as the *Nordisk familjebok*, *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.
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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
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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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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
- writer
- Employer
- Fort William College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Reformed Baptists
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- William Carey.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1761-08-17
- date of death
- 1834-06-09
- Commons category
- William Carey (missionary)
- name in native language
- William Carey
- writing language
- English language
- P12749
- Nicolaus Cisnerus
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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.
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