Edwin William Smith

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Edwin William Smith (born September 7, 1876 in Aliwal North , South Africa , † December 23, 1957 in Deal , England ) was a British military clergyman of the Methodists , missionary , ethnologist , linguist , historian and Africanist . He wrote a handbook of the Ila language ( Seshukulumbwe ) and together with Andrew Murray Dale researched the Ila- speaking population of Northern Rhodesia (today: Zambia ), his area of ​​activity as a missionary. Smith was the primary translator of the Bible into the Ila language. He was a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute .

Main work

  • Edwin William Smith and Andrew Murray Dale: The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. 2 volumes. London: Macmillan, 1920 ( digitized: I , II )

Other works

  • A Handbook of the Ila language [commonly called the Seshukulumbwe] spoken in North-Western Rhodesia, South-Central Africa: comprising grammar, exercises, speciments of Ila tales, and vocabularies. Republ. Oxford 1907. Ridegewood, NJ: Gregg, 1907
  • The Christian mission in Africa. The International Missionary, 1926
  • Aggrey of Africa. Ayer Co Pub, 1929
  • The Mabilles of Basutoland. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939
  • The secret of the African. United Society for Christian, 1943 (Seven lectures delivered as "Long lectures" in 1927-28, at the invitation of the Church Missionary Society .)
  • African beliefs and Christian faith. United Society for Christian, 1943
  • Knowing the African. United Society for Christian, 1946
  • The life and times of Daniel Lindley 1801-80. The Epworth Press 1949
  • The Blessed Missionaries: Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures delivered in Cape Town in 1949; with foreword by Sir Herbert Stanl. Cape Town: Oxford UP, 1950
  • Great Lion of Bechuanaland: the Life and Times of Roger Price , Missionary and Statesman, London 1957

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Edwin William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English missionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Aliwal North , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1957
Place of death Deal , England