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Robert Morrison

1782 - 1834

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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature". Morrison, a Presbyterian preacher, is most notable for his work in China. After twenty-five years of work he translated the whole Bible into the Chinese language and baptized ten Chinese believers, including Cai Gao, Liang Fa, and Wat Ngong. Morrison pioneered the translation of the Bible into Chinese and planned for the distribution of the Scriptures as broadly as possible, unlike the previous Roman Catholic translation work that had never been published. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Morrison is the 79th most popular linguist (down from 71st in 2019), the 2,129th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,810th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Robert Morrison ranks 79 out of 214. Before him are Émile Littré, Alexander Gode, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Carl Brockelmann, Đuro Daničić, and Vasili Eroshenko. After him are Morris Swadesh, Max Nettlau, Eugenio Coșeriu, Holger Pedersen, Anne Dacier, and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke.

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Among people born in 1782, Robert Morrison ranks 27. Before him are Julie Guicciardi, Marcellin Marbot, Faustin Soulouque, Esaias Tegnér, Georg August Goldfuss, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. After him are Conrad Graf, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Pierre Berthier, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, and Anthimus VI of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1834, Robert Morrison ranks 26. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, David Douglas, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. After him are Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Elisa Radziwiłł, Giovanni Aldini, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Jacques Labillardière, and Charles Lamb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Morrison ranks 2,129 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Hopkin (1950), Matthew Paris (1200), John Needham (1713), John Watson (1946), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), and Noel Gallagher (1967). After him are Francesca Annis (1945), Ian St John (1938), Sam Worthington (1976), George Whitefield (1714), Rebecca West (1892), and Archibald Leitch (1865).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Robert Morrison ranks 3. Before him are William Jones (1746), and Michael Halliday (1925). After him are Henry Watson Fowler (1858), Daniel Jones (1881), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Chadwick (1920), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), and Henry Sweet (1845).

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