Biographies of 2nd millennium AD
From Missiopedia
This page is an index to biographies of leaders born between 1000 AD and 2000 AD.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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- David Brainerd (1718 – 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans.
- Stephen Boakye-Yiadom (1944 - 2007) was the International Director of Trans World Radio of Africa.
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- William Carey was a missionary in India
[edit] D
- Leonhard Dober, on August 21, 1732 Leonhard Dober together with David Nitschmann were set out to the island St. Thomas in the West Indies, the day they left Herrnhut, marks the beginning of mission work of the Moravian Church.
- William MacDonald, born January 7, 1917 - December 25, 2007. Through his God given gift of teaching and by his godly example as a devoted disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ for the past 7+ decades, Bill’s impact in the life of others has been palpable.
- Alexander Duff, D.D. LLD. (1806 – 1878), was a missionary from Scottland in India.
[edit] E
- Hans Egede (1686-1758), a Norwegian, started to work among the Eskimos in Greenland in 1722. He had a hard time to learn the language of the people. Hans Egede turn back to Denmark 1734.
[edit] F
- Charles G. Finney
- August Hermann Francke (1663-1727), leading Pietist of his time, Professor at the University, Founder of the orphenage in Halle/Saale/Germany. Co-founder of the Danish-Halle Mission.
- Johann Philipp Fabricius (1711–1791), Bible translator, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
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- Samuel Hebich, 1803-1868, a German Missionary in India
[edit] J
- Christopher Samuel John (1747–1813), educator, passionate botanist and astronomical expert, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was an American Baptist missionary who labored for almost forty years in Burma (now known as Myanmar).
[edit] L
- David Livingstone
- Martin Luther, November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546, was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. He is also considered to be the founder of Protestantism.
[edit] M
- Samuel Mills, was born in Torringford, Connecticut, April 21, 1783 and died at sea, June 16, 1818; Haystack prayer meeting.
- Robert Morrison, (1782-1834) was a Scottish missionary in China.
[edit] N
- David Nitchmann, on August 21, 1732 David Nitschmann together with Leonhard Dober were set out to the island St. Thomas in the West Indies, the day they left Herrnhut, marks the beginning of mission work of the Moravian Church.
- Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
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- Karl Gottlieb Pfander (1803-1865) worked first in Southern Russia, later he moved to Iran worked there among the Muslims, he travelled very widely from an area, which is now Pakistan to Turkey and many places between. He was an orientalist.
- Heinrich Plütschau, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
[edit] R
- John Peter Rottler (1749-1836), lexicographer, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
[edit] S
- Benjamin Schultze (1689–1760), linguist,
- Christian Frederick Schwartz (1726–1798), missionary diplomat, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
- Albert Schweitzer
- Oswald J. Smith(1889-1986) raised the bar for missions several feet in his lifetime. His voice kept crying: "Missions! Missions! Missions!"
- C.T. Studd was a missionary in China, India, and Congo, founder of WEC International
- Priscilla Studd was a missionary and wife of Charles Studd, WEC International
- Doug Sutphen, known as Brother David, 1936 - 2007, a great friend of China
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- James Hudson Taylor was a missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International)
- Major Ian Thomas founder of Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers, born in Hampstead, London, England, 13th September 1915, died in Estes Park, Colorado, USA, 1st August 2007.
- Cameron Townsend, 1896-1982, founder of Summer Institute of Linguistics, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Wycliffe Associates, and the technical department of SIL known as JAARS.
[edit] W
- Christopher T. Walther (1699–1741), Hebrew scholar, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
- Charles Wesley
- John Wesley (1703–1791) was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman who was the early leader in the Methodist movement.
[edit] Z
- Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, missionary of the Tamil mission at Tranquebar
- Zinzendorf, Count Nicholas Ludwig von
- Samuel Marinus Zwemer
