Andrew Nelson (lexicographer)
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Andrew Nathaniel Nelson (December 23, 1893 – May 17, 1975) was an American missionary and scholar of East Asian languages and literature, best known for his work in Japanese lexicography.
Biography
He was born in
temples of Japan.[1]
After retiring from missionary work in 1961, he was preoccupied with placing the finishing touches on his masterpiece, Kangxi radical system traditionally used to classify Kanji.
Nelson died in Hong Kong.
Administrator
Philippine Union College
While President of
Philippine Union College, Nelson also served as a chaplain at the New Bilibid Prison. On January 19, 1951, he provided pastoral support for the fourteen executed that day, thirteen of them were part of the Nakamura Case.[4]
Founded Mountain View College
Nelson describes the founding of Mountain View College in a report published in the March 17, 1953, Youth's Instructor. They established a list of criteria based on the values of Adventist Education and then explored the vast territory of the South Philippines looking for land which met the criteria.[5]
Works
- Nelson's Kanji Dictionary
See also
- Dwight Nelson
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Seventh-day Adventist theology
- Seventh-day Adventist eschatology
- History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Teachings of Ellen G. White
- Inspiration of Ellen G. White
- Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Investigative judgment
- Pillars of Adventism
- Second Coming
- Conditional Immortality
- Historicism
- Three Angels' Messages
- Sabbath in seventh-day churches
- Ellen G. White
- Adventism
- Seventh-day Adventist Church Pioneers
- Seventh-day Adventist worship
References
- ^ Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel (1939). The Origin, History, and Present Status of the Temples of Japan. unpublished dissertation.
- ISBN 0-8048-1965-3.
- ISBN 0-8048-2036-8.
- ^ Hitoshi Nagai. A Soul in Sad Exile: Never-ending War of a Japanese Surgeon. Hiroshima Research News. Hiroshima Peace Institute Vol. 9 No. 1 July, 2006, p. 1 Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Andrew N. Nelson (1953) Pioneering a New College in the Philippines. The Youth's Instructor. March 17, 1953, p. 12.
External links
- Basic biographical details (in German)
- University of Washington library catalog entry for Nelson's Ph.D. thesis
- "The Origin, History and Present Status of the Temples of Japan" thesis scanned text
- Nelson, Andrew N. Pioneering a New College in the Philippines. The Youth's Instructor. March 17, 1953, p. 12
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