Alexander Wylie (missionary)
Alexander Wylie | |
|---|---|
 Missionary to China | |
| Born | 6 April 1815 London, England |
| Died | 10 February 1887 (aged 71) London, England |
Alexander Wylie (
Qing Dynasty
.
Early life
Wylie was born in London, and went to school at Drumlithie,
Latin (the Notitia linguae sinicae by Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare
).
China
After having mastered Latin, he went on to make such good progress in Chinese that, in 1846,
method (1819) of solving equations of all orders had been known to the Chinese mathematicians of the 14th century.[1][2]
He made several journeys into the interior, notably in 1858 with
Han. He completed the distribution of one million Chinese New Testaments provided by the British and Foreign Bible Society's special fund of 1855. From 1863 he was an agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society.[1] He was succeeded by Samuel Dyer, Junior, the son of Samuel Dyer and brother-in-law of Hudson Taylor
.
In Chinese, he translated books on
Nestorian Tablet in Xi'an
.
Retirement
His health and eyesight were failing and he returned to London in 1877. In 1881 and 1882 he sold his collection of some 500 Chinese titles to the Bodleian Library; the collection was catalogued by David Helliwell in 1985. Blind and bed-ridden, he died at his home, 18 Christchurch Road, Hampstead on 6 February 1887 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery (plot no:15429).
Works
- Alexander Wylie (1867). Memorials of Protestant missionaries to the Chinese: giving a list of their publications, and obituary notices of the deceased. With copious indexes. American Presbyterian Mission Press. p. 331. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- Alexander Wylie; Henri Cordier (1897). Chinese Researches.
- Alexander Wylie (1902). Notes on Chinese Literature: With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art; and a List of Translations from the Chinese Into Various European Languages. Printed at the American Presbyterian mission Press.
See also
- Protestantism in Sichuan
- List of London Missionary Society missionaries in China
Notes
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wylie, Alexander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 871.
- ^ Wylie, Alexander (1853). Jottings on the Sciences of the Chinese. Shanghai: Northern Herald.
References
- Carlyle, Edward Irving (1900). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Carlyle, E. I.; Bickers, Robert. "Wylie, Alexander (1815–1887)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30133. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Alfred James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor & China's Open Century, Book Six: Assault On The Nine, Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988
- Henri Cordier, The Life and Labours of Alexander Wylie, London: Trubner & Co, 1887
- David Helliwell, A catalogue of the old Chinese books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 1985
External links
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