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Karl Friedrich August GüTZLAFF (aka Charles Gutzlaff) [1803-1851]

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2021-12-19 18:18
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Gützlaff
Given: 
Karl Friedrich August
Alias / nickname: 
Charles Gutzlaff
Birth
Date: 
1803-07-08
Birthplace (town, state): 
Pyritz, Province of Pomerania
Death
Date: 
1851-08-09

Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff was a German Lutheran missionary, the first one in China. 

He was sent by the  Netherlands Missionary Society to Java in 1826, where he learned Chinese. Later he went to Singapore and Bangkok. From about 1830 he worked in Macau, and a bit later in Hong Kong where he worked on a Chinese translation of the Bible.

He also worked as an interpreter, first for William Jardine, later for the British government during negotiations during the First Opium War (1839-1842).  

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Home for the Blind - 1903

Submitted by christoph on Tue, 2011-07-05 13:20
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1903
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

An early Photo of the Home for the Blind in Kowloon in To Kwa Wan, Kowloon. A new wing was added in 1906.

Home for the Blind - Time Capsule

Submitted by christoph on Tue, 2011-07-05 00:38
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

The foundation stone of the "Home for the Blind" contained in a time capsule the picture on display. (scan from the book: Schwester Martha Postler; Hamburg 1909)

Home for the Blind - First Building

Submitted by christoph on Tue, 2011-07-05 00:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1897
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

"Hildesheim Mission for the Blind" - first location

The picture shows the first "Home For The Blind" in the Western District in 1897. I do not have any hint about the exact location. In 1900 the blind girls and their teachers, Fräulein Postler and Fräulein Reinicke of the "Hildesheim Mission to the Blind", moved to Macao due to an outbreak of the Beriberi disease.

They returned to their new home in Kowloon in 1902.

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