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Absalom Sydenstricker. Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker ( Chinese: 賽 兆 祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. [1] [2] The Sydenstricker log house at what later became the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home. He was of German descent.
22 de abr. de 2021 · Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. The Sydenstricker log house at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia was Absalom's early childhood home. He was one of nine children of Andrew and Frances Coffman Sydenstricker of Ronceverte, West Virginia.
- Male
- August 13, 1852
- Caroline Maude (Stulting) Sydenstricker
- August 31, 1931
Fighting Angel. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul (1936) is a memoir, sometimes called a "creative non-fiction novel," written by Pearl S. Buck about her father, Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) as a companion to her memoir of her mother, The Exile. [1]
- Pearl S. Buck
- 1936
Excerpt. Family and Intimate relationships. Pearl S. Buck. Pearl's father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was obsessed with the compulsion to save souls, haunted by the disproportion between the numbers of heathen Chinese whom he could convert and the number beyond his reach, always ready... Literary responses.
8 de nov. de 2022 · The economist Edgar Sydenstricker, who spent most of his working life at the United States Public Health Service and at the Milbank Memorial Fund, examined a wide range of health economics issues. He contributed to the debate around the cause of the disease pellagra.
Absalom Sydenstricker was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. Background. The book Fighting Angel, written as a companion to her memoir of her mother, The Exile, recounts the life and work of Absalom (called "Andrew" in the book).
8 de nov. de 2023 · Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) was a Presbyterian missionary from the southern United States. He came to China in 1880, initially carrying out missionary work in northern Jiangsu. Later, he was invited to lecture at Nanking Theological Seminary.
