BUCHER, Jakob. 18?? — 1???. Rev. German Missionary in South India. Working for Basel Mission in Dharwar and from 1890 in Mangalore as Superintendent of Anglo-Vernacular High School. Married. One pastor Jakob Bucher lived in 8.12.1865–25.10.1932, but he is unlikely. Publications: A Kannada–English School Dictionary, chiefly based on the labours…
BROWN, Nathan. New Ipswich, NH 22.6.1807 — Yokohama 1.1.1885. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India and Japan. Son of Nathan Brown and Elizabeth Goldsmith. Educated at Williams College and Newton Theological Institution. Worked two years as teacher in Vermont and from 1832 as missionary, first in Burma and from 1836…
BRICE, Nathaniel. Plymtree, Devon 13.11.1814 — Dinapore, Bihar 2.7.1869. British Baptist Missionary in India. The Preface of the book is signed in Dinapore (now Danapur in Bihar), where the birth of a daughter is mentioned in 1843. The Baptist missionary J. G. Gregson married 1861 the eldest daughter of Nath. Brice…
BREITHAUPT, Johann Christian. Dransfeld near Göttingen 26.9.1719 — Vepery, Chennai 17.11.1782. German Missionary in South India. Son of Christoph Breithaupt and his wife Katharina Elisabeth. School and from 1740 studies at Halle. From 1741 worked as teacher, ordained priest 1845 in Wernigerode. From 1746 missionary in Trankebar, 1747 in Cuddalore, from…
COLE, Frederick Thomas. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in India. First in Agra, from 1873 in Santal Mission of Church Missionary Society in Taljhari, Rajmahal, until at least 1880. In 1891 in England, apparently living in 1900. Publications: “Santâli Folklore”, IA 4, 1875, 10-12, 257-259; “Santali Riddles”, IA 4, 1875,…
CLARKSON, William. Salisbury 1817 — 1897. Rev. British Missionary of London Missionary Society in Gujarat in 1839-48. Returned to England and became minister at Folkestone. Apparently there was another W. Clarkson, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, also in Gujarat, but in the second half of the 19th…
CINNOMA, Leonardo. 1??? — 1644. Father. Catholic Missionary in India. Publications: A grammar and dictionary of Kannaḍa, publ. Goa 1674 (some say 1774), some religious works. Sources: The work often briefly mentioned, e.g. in V.K. Gokak, Literatures in Modern Indian Languages. Delhi 1967, 107. These may all hail from one…
CHOUNAVEL, Constant. Socourt, Saint-Dié (Vosges) 9.4.1825 — Borella, Sri Lanka 23.8.1923. O.M.I. French Catholic Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Joseph Chounavel and Christine Pierron. Studied theology at seminary of Saint-Dié and took the habit in 1849. Ordained priest in 1852 in Marseille and left for Ceylon. In 1852-83 served…
CARPENTER, John N. 18?? — 19??. British Missionary in India. M.A. Went to India in 1890. Worked for Church Missionary Society in Allahabad (in 1900 as Principal of St.Paul’s Divinity School, again in A. in 1906/11) and Gorakhpur (1905), but seems also to have been connected with St.John’s College, Agra.…
CALLAWAY, John. 1793? — 23.11.1846, when 48. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Arrived in 1815 and worked there about ten years (1816 in Matara, 1817 and 1821-24 Principal of Galle School). In 1826 retired to England, apparently lived in London. Publications: A Vocabulary, with Useful Phrases and Familiar…