John Van Nest Talmage
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John Van Nest Talmage (born 8 August 1819; died 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian
Christian
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missionary
Missionary
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to Amoy
Amoy
Xiamen, or Amoy, is a city on the southeast coast of China.Amoy may also refer to:*Amoy dialect, a dialect of the Hokkien lects, which are part of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages...
, China
China
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. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America
Reformed Church in America
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from 1847 to 1890.
Biography
His younger brother Thomas De Witt TalmageThomas De Witt Talmage
Reverend Dr. Thomas De Witt Talmage was a preacher, clergyman and divine in the United States who held pastorates in the Reformed Church in America and Presbyterian Church. He was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a...
was also a clergyman, and his family, within the Reformed tradition, migrated to North America
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from the Netherlands
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. His father's family had emigrated from England, and were the founders of the towns of South Hampton, and East Hampton in New York.
Works
He wrote:- Tn̂g-oē Hoan-jī Chho͘-ha̍k : an early book on Pe̍h-oē-jī, the Latin orthography for the Chinese MinnanMin NanThe Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora....
language. - Chinese-English Dictionary (1885): dictionary of AmoyAmoyXiamen, or Amoy, is a city on the southeast coast of China.Amoy may also refer to:*Amoy dialect, a dialect of the Hokkien lects, which are part of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages...
vernacular and EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China, which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre.