MULLENS, Joseph. London 2.9.1820 — Chakombe (in Tanzania) 10.7.1879. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Richard Mullens. From 1837 studied at Coward College, a dissenting academy training people for nonconformist ministry, affiliated to University of London, graduating B.A. 1941. Further studies in Edinburgh. Ordained Congregational minister in 1843 and soon left for India. Worked in Bhawanipur near Calcutta under A. F. Lacroix. Studied Hinduism in order to find better arguments for mission. Returned tot he U.K. in 1858. From 1865 Foreign secretary of London Missionary Society, visited mission stations in India, China, Madagascar and finally East Africa. As missionary he was ecumenist, but not very succesful. Hon. D.D. 1861 Williams College, Mass., 1868 Edinburgh. Married 1845 Hana Catherine (1826–1861), the daughter of —> Lacroix.
Publications: Vedantism, Brahmism and Christianity Examined and Compared. 6+253 p. Calcutta 1852.
– Missions in South India: Visited and Described. 191 p. L. 1854.
– The Religious Aspects of Hindu Philosophy. 15+439 p. L. 1860.
– Brief Memorials of the Rev. Alphonse François Lacroix, missionary of the London Missionary Society in Calcutta. 12+483 p. L. 1862.
– London and Calcutta Compared in Their Heathenism, Their Privileges, and Their Prospects: Showing the Great Claims of Foreign Missions Upon the Christian Church. 262 p. L. 1868.
– Twelve Months in Madagascar. 13+334 p. L. 1875.
Sources: S.P.O[liver], D.N.B. 39, 1894, 276f.; *Oxford D.N.B.; Wikipedia.
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