Robert Morrison, FRS

Royal Society

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  (5 January 1782 in Bullers Green

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, near Morpeth

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, Northumberland

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 – 1 August 1834 in Guangzhou

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) was an Anglo -Scottish evangelist and the first Christian Protestant missionary

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 in China

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.

After twenty-five years of work he translated the whole Bible

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 into the Chinese language

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 and baptized ten Chinese believers. Morrison pioneered the translation of the Bible into Chinese

Chinese Bible Translations

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 and planned for the distribution of the Scriptures as broadly as possible, unlike the previous Roman Catholic translation work that had never been published.

Morrison cooperated with such contemporary missionaries as Walter Henry Medhurst

Walter Henry Medhurst

Walter Henry Medhurst , was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School, was one of the early translators of the Bible into Chinese language editions.-Early life:...

 and William Milne (the printers), Samuel Dyer

Samuel Dyer

Samuel Dyer 台約爾 , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. He arrived in Penang in 1827. Dyer, his wife Maria, and their family lived in Malacca and then finally in Singapore...

 (Hudson Taylor's

Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission . Taylor spent 51 years in China...

 father-in-law), Karl Gutzlaff

Karl Gützlaff

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 (the Prussia

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n linguist), and Peter Parker

Peter Parker (physician)

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 (China's first medical missionary).