George Smith, Smith George

The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D

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Produktbeschreibung

A two-volume, 1879 biography of an early Scottish Presbyterian missionary who influenced educational reform in colonial India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9781108008297
• ISBN-10: 1108008291
• Artikelnr.: 28183400

Autorenporträt

George Smith (1840-1876) worked for the Oriental Antiquities Department of the British Museum. Among his publications are 'History of Assurbanipal,' 'The Phonetic Values of the Cuneiform Characters,' 'The Assyrian Eponym Canon,' 'The Chaldean Account of Genesis,' and 'Assyria from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Nineveh.'

Inhaltsangabe

1. The boy and the student
2. The first missionary of the Church of Scotland
3. The two shipwrecks
4. Calcutta as it was
5. The mine prepared
6. The first explosion and the four converts
7. The renaissance in India - the English language and the church
8. The renaissance in India - science and letters
9. Work for Europeans, Eurasians and native Christians
10. The invalid and the orator
11. Dr Duff organising
12. Fishers of men
13. Egypt-Sinai-Bombay-Madras
14. Fighting the Governor-General
15. The college and its spiritual fruit.