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22 de abr. de 2024 · Alexander Duff (born April 26, 1806, Moulin, Perthshire, Scot.—died Feb. 12, 1878, Edinburgh) was the Church of Scotland’s first missionary to India, highly influential on later missionary endeavours through his promotion of higher education.
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Scottish missionary in India and missiologist. Duff was born in Moulin, Perthshire, the son of a Gaelic-speaking farm servant. At St. Andrews University he was a distinguished student in arts and divinity and helped to found a student missionary society.
27 de jun. de 2018 · The Scottish Presbyterian missionary Alexander Duff (1806-1878) was a pioneer of Christian education in India and a foremost leader of the world missionary movement of his day. Alexander Duff was born in Moulin on April 25, 1806, into a pious family. He was a brilliant student at St. Andrews University.
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After an adventurous voyage during which he shipwrecked twice, Duff arrived in Calcutta on May 27, 1830. He at once identified himself with a policy which had far-reaching effects. Christian missions in India had been successful only in converting a few low-caste groups from a needy socio-economic background. The upper caste Hindu and Muslim commun...
Duff's school taught the full range of liberal arts subjects, from the rudiments upwards to a university standard, alongside the Bible. He used the English language as the medium of instruction on the grounds that Indian students would best understand the topics in English. Duff wrote a pamphlet on the question, entitled A New Era of the English La...
Shortly after setting foot in India in 1830, Duff opened his first school in a house located at upper Chitpur Road in the Jorasanko neighborhood of Calcutta. Feringhi Kamal Bose, an affluent Hindu, made the house available. The school soon expanded into a missionary college, known as the General Assembly's Institution. In 1834, Duff returned to Bri...
In 1849, Duff returned to Britain. He served as moderator of the Free Church assembly in 1851 and gave evidence before various Indian committees of parliament on matters of education. This led to an important dispatch by Viscount Halifax, president of the Board of Control, to governor-general the Marquess of Dalhousie, authorizing an educational ad...
Occupation. Missionary, Teacher. Alma mater. University of St. Andrews. Alexander Duff (25 April 1806, in Edinburgh – 12 February 1878, in Sidmouth ), was a Christian missionary in India; where he played a large part in the development of higher education.
by D. H. EMMOTT, Lecturer in Education, City of Sheffield. Alexander Duff (I806-1878), the first missionary sent abroad by. the Church of Scotland, lived and worked in Calcutta in the. formative years of modern education in India. His influence was.
14 de jun. de 2017 · Biography of Alexander Duff, Missionary to India - Missiology Blog. By Rob June 14, 2017. This is a copy of the Thomas Smith’s 1883 biography of the the noted missionary to India, Alexander Duff [1806-1878]. As the author points out, he had both an intimate knowledge of his subject and the co-operation of Duff’s official biographer Mr George Smith.
