David Bexell
David Enoch Fridolf Samuel Bexell (born August 24, 1861 in Barnarp, Småland , Sweden , † July 5, 1938 in Tirupattur, South India ) was a Swedish Lutheran bishop.
Bexell was the son of pastor Josef Bexell and his wife Maria Hansson. He studied in Lund and Leipzig and was ordained in Växjö in 1887 . The Swedish Church sent him as a missionary to India, where he worked for life in various mission stations, including from 1893 to 1899 in Coimbatore and from 1900 to 1909 in Pudukkottai . In 1913 he became superintendent of the diocese, which in 1919 became the independent Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church . In 1927 he was elected Bishop of Tranquebar and thus the leading bishop of this church. In 1934 he retired.
Bexell translated classical Christian literature, e.g. B. Magnus Friedrich Roos , into the Tamil language and published an English-Tamil dictionary in 1933, the so-called Tranquebar Dictonary , which was the result of his lifelong work and facilitated the connections between Tamil and European culture.
literature
- Sigfrid Estborn: Från Taberg till Tranquebar. Levnadsteckning över biskop David Bexell . Stockholm 1940.
- VG Asirvatham: The Right Rev. David Bexell, DD, Second Bishop of Tranquebar 1861-1938 . Madras 1958 (text in Tamil ).
Web links
- Short biography on the website of the Leipziger Missionswerk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bexell, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bexell, David Enoch Fridolf Samuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish Lutheran bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barnarp, Småland , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1938 |
| Place of death | Tirupattur, South India |