Robert Morrison
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 190 years ago |
Date of birth | January 5,1782 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Morpeth |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | August 1,1834 |
Died | Guangzhou |
China | |
Spouse | Eliza Morrison |
Mary Morrison | |
Children | John Robert Morrison |
George S. Morrison | |
Job | Translator |
Missionary | |
Writer | |
Lexicographer | |
Education | Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry |
Books | Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect |
Chinese Miscellany | |
A Grammar of the Chinese Language | |
Translations from the Original Chinese: With Notes | |
A dictionary of the Chinese language: in three parts, part the first containing Chinese and English, arranged according to the radicals, part the second, Chinese and English arranged alphabetically and part the third English and Chinese | |
A Dictionary of the Chinese Language | |
Horæ Sinicæ: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese | |
A Parting Memorial: Consisting of Miscellaneous Discourses, Written and Preached in China, at Singapore, on Board Ship at Sea, in the Indian Ocean, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in England; With Remarks on Missions . . | |
Parents | James Morrison |
Hannah Nicholson | |
Buried | Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau, Macau, Macao |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 485281 |
Robert Morrison Life story
Robert Morrison, FRS, was an Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".