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Alejandro Duff, I duque de Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, (10 de noviembre de 1849-12 de enero de 1912), vizconde Macduff entre 1857 y 1879 y conocido como el conde de Fife entre 1879 y 1889, fue un par británico casado con la princesa Luisa del Reino Unido, hija mayor del rey Eduardo VII del Reino Unido y de Alejandra de Dinamarca .
27 de jun. de 2018 · Alexander Duff. 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.
2 de mar. de 2021 · Duff (1806–1878) was the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation of South Asia.
Today, Alexander Duff is largely forgotten, his memory eclipsed by his younger contemporary, David Livingston. Yet when Duff died in 1878, the Times contained a long obituary, Prime Minister Gladstone eulogised him and Scotland mourned as a nation that had lost its noblest son. Few then would have thought it possible that Duff would ever be ...
10 de may. de 2023 · Embed. February 13. Alexander Duff. Just when Duff was finishing his education, the Church of Scotland was preparing its first mission, which would be based on education, and they appointed him superintendent of a new mission school at Calcutta. Writing about whether he ought to go India or stay in Scotland, Duff said: “with the Bible in my ...
13 de feb. de 2015 · Alexander Duff: Pioneer of Missionary Education by William Paton. Published by George H. Doran Co., New York, 1922. Soon the Scottish Church decided to send a missionary to India on an educational mission, and Duff was asked to go. In 1829, at the age of 18, he left for India with his new bride Anne. When he arrived in Calcutta, Christianity ...
DUFF, ALEXANDER, D.D., LL.D. (1806–1878), missionary, was born at Auchnahyle in the parish of Moulin, Perthshire, 26 April 1806. In his boyhood he came under deep religious impressions, and in his course of study in arts and theology at the university of St. Andrews was much influenced by Chalmers, then professor of moral philosophy.
