Horace Newton Allen

Horace Newton Allen (born April 23, 1858 in Delaware , Ohio , † December 11, 1932 in Toledo , Ohio) was an American doctor , missionary and diplomat in Korea .

Life

Allen studied medicine at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware and at Miami Medical College , Oxford until 1883. He married soon after graduating. Allen and his wife traveled to China under the auspices of a Presbyterian mission society to work as a doctor and missionary. The Allens asked for a transfer because the couple did not like China and so they were transferred to Korea in 1884 . Allen founded a hospital there, practiced as a doctor and taught Western medicine. On the recommendation of the German diplomat Paul Georg von Möllendorff , a nephew of King Gojong , Young Il Min, was treated by everyone and was able to recover. Allen was then appointed personal physician to the king and his family. His closeness to the king enabled other missionaries to travel to Korea and become active there.

In 1887, Allen was called by the king to accompany the first Korean embassy to Washington, DC as advisor and secretary . In 1890 he became Secretary of the US Embassy in Seoul , later Deputy Consul and finally in 1901 Consul of the United States in Korea. In 1905 he resigned as consul and went back to the USA. The reason was the US foreign policy of the time, which tolerated Japan's striving for supremacy in Korea, but was not accepted by everyone. After his resignation he worked again as a doctor in Toledo , where he died on December 11, 1932.

Works

Korean Tales , (1889)
A Chronological Index of the Foreign Relations of Korea from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century , (1901)

Supplement , (1903)

Things Korean , (Seoul, 1908)

Web links

Horace Newton Allen (1908), Things Korean: A Collection of Sketches and Anecdotes, Missionary and Diplomatic
Horace Newton Allen (1889), Korean Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Translated from the Korean Folk Lore
Horace Newton Allen (1901), A Chronological Index: Some of the Chief Events in the Foreign Intercourse of Korea

Individual evidence

^ J. Gordon Melton: Allen, Horace Newton . (1858-1932). In: Encyclopedia of World Religions . Encyclopedia of Protestantism, No. 6 . Facts of File, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-8160-5456-5 , pp. 19 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Allen, Horace Newton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American doctor, missionary, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Delaware (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1932
Place of death	Toledo (Ohio)

[1] J. Gordon Melton: Allen, Horace Newton . (1858-1932). In: Encyclopedia of World Religions . Encyclopedia of Protestantism, No. 6 . Facts of File, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-8160-5456-5 , pp. 19 (English).