Edwin W. Smith

Edwin W. Smith

Edwin William Smith (* 7. September 1876 in Aliwal North, Südafrika; † 23. Dezember 1957 in Deal, England) war ein britischer Militär-Geistlicher der Methodisten, Missionar, Ethnologe, Linguist, Historiker und Afrikanist. Er verfasste ein Handbuch der Ila-Sprache (Seshukulumbwe) und erforschte zusammen mit Andrew Murray Dale die ilasprachige Bevölkerung von Nordrhodesien (heute: Sambia), seinem Wirkungsgebiet als Missionar. Smith war der Haupt-Übersetzer der Bibel in die Ila-Sprache. Er war Mitglied des Königlichen Anthropologischen Instituts.

Hauptwerk

  • Edwin William Smith und Andrew Murray Dale: The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. 2 Bände. London : Macmillan, 1920

Weitere Werke

  • A Handbook of the Ila language [commonly called the Seshukulumbwe] spoken in North-Western Rhodesia, South-Central Africa : comprising grammar, exercises, speciments of Ila tales, and vocabularies. Republ. Oxford 1907. - Ridegewood, N.J. : Gregg, 1907
  • The Christian mission in Africa. The International Missionary , 1926
  • Aggrey of Africa. Ayer Co Pub , 1929
  • The Mabilles of Basutoland. Hodder and Stoughton , 1939
  • The secret of the African. United Society for Christian , 1943 (Seven lectures delivered as "Long lectures" in 1927-28, at the invitation of the Church Missionary Society.)
  • African beliefs and Christian faith. United Society for Christian , 1943
  • Knowing the African. United Society for Christian , 1946
  • The life and times of Daniel Lindley 1801-80. The Epworth Press 1949
  • The Blessed Missionaries: Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures delivered in Cape Town in 1949; with foreward by Sir Herbert Stanl. Kapstadt: Oxford U.P , 1950
  • Great Lion of Bechuanaland: the Life and Times of Roger Price, Missionary and Statesman, London 1957

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Personendaten
NAME Smith, Edwin William
KURZBESCHREIBUNG englischer Missionar
GEBURTSDATUM 7. September 1876
GEBURTSORT Aliwal North
STERBEDATUM 23. Dezember 1957
STERBEORT Deal (Kent)

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