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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.Morrison cooperated with such contemporary missionaries as Walter Henry Medhurst and William Milne (the printers), Samuel Dyer (Hudson Taylor's father-in-law), Karl Gützlaff (the Prussian linguist), and Peter Parker (China's first medical missionary). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Morrison has received more than 15,617 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Morrison is the 64th most popular linguist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 1,721st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,529th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Linguist.

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  • 54.33

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Robert Morrison ranks 64 out of 161Before him are Michael Halliday, William Labov, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Hugo Schuchardt, and Vilém Mathesius. After him are Noah Webster, Karl Brugmann, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Matthias Castrén, Émile Littré, and Gustaf John Ramstedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Robert Morrison ranks 22Before him are Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, John C. Calhoun, Faustin Soulouque, Marcellin Marbot, and Pierre Berthier. After him are Princess Marie of Baden, Eugène de Mazenod, Esaias Tegnér, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Wilhelm von Biela, and Alexander von Benckendorff. Among people deceased in 1834, Robert Morrison ranks 21Before him are Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, Giovanni Aldini, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, and Aleksey Arakcheyev. After him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Charles Lamb, Gamzat-bek, and Thomas Telford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Morrison ranks 1,721 out of 7,765Before him are Phil Jones (1992), Geoff Hurst (1941), James Finlayson (1887), Richard Aldington (1892), Peter Vaughan (1923), and Marie Stopes (1880). After him are J. Lee Thompson (1914), Dixie Dean (1907), Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), Rick Parfitt (1948), John Watson (1946), and Paul Gascoigne (1967).

Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Robert Morrison ranks 3Before him are William Jones (1746) and Michael Halliday (1925). After him are John Chadwick (1920), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), James Legge (1815), John Lyons (1932), John Eliot (1604), and Henry Liddell (1811).