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Karl Gützlaff

1803 - 1851

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Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and the first Lutheran missionary to China (1831-1848). He was a colorful "swashbuckling Pomeranian" who combined his prodigious talent as a prolific Christian author and linguist with participation in the illegal opium trade in 1830s China. He was one of the first Protestant missionaries in China to dress in Chinese clothing and was said to be so proficient in Chinese language and culture that he could pass as Chinese. His books were widely read and his adaptation to Chinese culture served as a model for the later work of missionary Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Gützlaff is the 7,934th most popular politician (up from 8,188th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from Poland (up from 491st in 2019) and the 107th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Karl Gützlaff ranks 7,934 out of 19,576. Before him are Richilde of Provence, Han Zheng, Nguyễn Huệ, Sidney Reilly, Bertrand Barère, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Barsbay, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Ivan Šubašić, Emperor Go-Sanjō, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Guru Tegh Bahadur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Karl Gützlaff ranks 28. Before him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, C. L. Gloger, Robert Stephenson, Friedrich von Amerling, Muhammad IV of Morocco, and John Ericsson. After him are Peter Chanel, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Henry Darcy, John Sutter, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Among people deceased in 1851, Karl Gützlaff ranks 25. Before him are Albert Lortzing, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Lorenz Oken, Karl Lachmann, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Dean Mahomed. After him are Vincenz Priessnitz, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Göran Wahlenberg, Conrad Graf, and Stanko Vraz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karl Gützlaff ranks 430 out of 1,694. Before him are Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), Josef Hofmann (1876), Sendivogius (1566), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), and Hermann von Eichhorn (1848). After him are Hugo Haase (1863), Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Helene Deutsch (1884), and Józef Beck (1894).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Karl Gützlaff ranks 107. Before him are Pylyp Orlyk (1672), Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457), Wilhelm Kube (1887), Gustav Freytag (1816), Zbigniew Religa (1938), and Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942). After him are Hugo Haase (1863), Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), Józef Beck (1894), Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), and Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (1513).

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