Bartholomew Ziegenbalg
The 37-year life of Bartholomew Ziegenbalg (1682–1719), sent to the Danish Crown Colony of Tranquebar in South India in 1706 as the first Protestant missionary to Asia, demonstrates how the spirituality of early Lutheran pietism helped to shape a missionary vocation. Moreover, the linguistic and bib...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1999
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Missiology
Year: 1999, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 487-494 |
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| Summary: | The 37-year life of Bartholomew Ziegenbalg (1682–1719), sent to the Danish Crown Colony of Tranquebar in South India in 1706 as the first Protestant missionary to Asia, demonstrates how the spirituality of early Lutheran pietism helped to shape a missionary vocation. Moreover, the linguistic and biblical training given in Berlin and at the University of Halle, Germany, provided a strong foundation for the missionary's cross-cultural and inter-religious encounter in India. Using Erich Beyreuther's biographical sketch of Ziegenbalg (Beyreuther 1955), and a more recent study by Tamil scholar Daniel Jeyaraj (Jeyaraj 1996), based on original sources, we shall examine a few biographical highlights from the brief life of this evangelical missionary pioneer. The story is replete with ironic twists, zigs and zags, and surprises. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182969902700407 |