The Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August G tzlaff (1803-51) sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and G tzlaff later focused his evangelising efforts there, learning several dialects and distributing translated literature. The present work, featuring an introductory...
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