CAMPS, Arnulf Petrus Henricus Johannes Maria (Arnulf Pierre Camps). Eindhoven 1.2.1925 — Nijmegen 5.3.2006. O.F.M. Dutch Historian of Catholic Mission. After Augustinian gymnasium in Eindhoven joined Franciscan novitiate in 1943. Ordained priest 1950. B.D. 1951 Nijmegen. D.D. 1957 Fribourg (Switzerland), in Missiology. In 1957-61 Professor of Missiology and Islamology at Karachi Regional Seminary in Pakistan. Also visited Sri Lanka and India, finally returned because of illness. In 1963-90 Professor of Missiology at Catholic University of Nijmegen, emeritus.
Publications: Diss. Jerome Xavier S. J. and the Muslims of the Mogul Empire. Controversial works and missionary activity. Nouvelle revue de science missionnaire, Supplementa VI. 18+260 p. Schöneck-Beckenried 1957.
– Partners in Dialogue: Christianity and Other Religions. Translated from the Dutch by John Drury. 8+264 p. Maryknoll 1983.
– Edited with J.-C. Muller: The Sanskrit grammar and manuscripts of Father Heinrich Roth, S.J. (1620-1668). 25+49+34 p. Leiden 1988 (facsimile).
– Studies in Asian mission history, 1956-1998. 12+337 p. Studies in Christian mission 25. Leiden – Boston 2000.
– Books not related with South Asia, especially on Chinese mission.
Sources: Stray notes in Internet; Fr. Wijsen, Mission Studies 2005, 5ff.
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