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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 in Korea (1832). He was also the first Lutheran missionary to China.
Apr 28, 2010 · On this day, August 9, 1851, Karl Gutzlaff died in disgrace. In large measure, he had himself to blame, which was a pity, because he had applied genuinely original methods to the problem of evangelizing China. He was one of the first Protestant missionaries to dress like a Chinese. Wherever he went, he made scripture translations.
Learn about Karl Gützlaff, the first of many missionaries who came to China from Continental Europe. He distributed tracts, formed the Chinese Union, and inspired Hudson Taylor, but also faced challenges and failures.
Oct 29, 2018 · This essay challenges the ‘methodological territorialism’ and ‘methodological nationalism’ prevalent in recent studies of imperial biographies, examining the role of the German Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1801–1851) in establishing a transnational form of free-trade imperialism in China.
- Thoralf Klein
- 2019
Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, 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 in Korea (1832).
Mar 31, 2016 · Karl (Charles) Friedrich August Gützlaff (1803–1851) was probably the most controversial and colourful missionary who ever stepped onto the shores of China during the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, pioneer Protestant missionary in China, was born in Pomerania, Germany in 1803. He trained in a mission institute in Berlin and, having met Robert Morrison in London, began to learn Chinese with a view to working amongst the Chinese people.
