Eugène Casalis

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Eugène Casalis

Jean Eugène Casalis (born November 21, 1812 in Orthez ; † March 9, 1891 in Paris ; also Eugen Casalis ) was a French Protestant missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (about: "Paris Evangelical Mission Society") and ethnologist who Protestant mission among the Basotho in what is now Lesotho in southern Africa . He was a member of the French Reformed Church . He stayed with the Basotho from 1833 to 1855, among others with Thomas Arbousset . In addition to his missionary work, he was active as an advisor to morena Moshoeshoe I. , particularly in matters of foreign policy. He dealt with the linguistics of Sesotho and in 1841 was the first European to write a work on it. After his return to Paris, Casalis was the director of the Paris Mission Society and engaged in the training of missionaries. In 1859 he published a monograph on the Basotho. His memories of his life as a missionary in southern Africa have also been translated into German.

Casalis was married twice. Four of his children worked as missionaries or doctors in Basutoland. The church founded by Casalis is now the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa, after the Catholic Church, the second largest religious community in Lesotho.

Works

  • Les Bassoutos. Paris 1859 (English under the title: The Basutos: or twenty-three years in South Africa. Nisbet, London 1861 digitized
  • My memories. Publishing house of the German Orient Mission. Berlin 1901. The excerpt from the text Arrival in Cape Town was published with a short biography in: Von Grönland bis Lambarene. Travel descriptions by Christian missionaries from three centuries. Edited by John Paul . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1952 (pp. 50–62) = Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1958, pp. 47–59.
  • My Life in Basutoland: A Story of Missionary Enterprise in South Africa. C. Struik, Cape Town 1971, 2nd edition in English. Facsimile of the 1889 edition of the Religious Tract Society.)
  • Mes souvenirs. 4th edition. Librairie Fischbacher, Paris 1886
  • Eugène Casalis: Études sur la langue Séchuana . A L'Imprimerie Royale, 1841 ( full text in Google book search).

literature

  • Alain Ricard: Eugène Casalis, les Bassoutos, la poésie ... In: L'Ethnologie à Bordeaux, Hommage à Pierre Métais. Center d'études et de recherches ethnologiques, Bordeaux, 1995 Online at llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr (PDF; 37 kB)
  • H. Dieterlen: Eugène Casalis (1812-1891), Fondateur de la Mission protestante du Lessouto . Édité par Société des missions évangéliques - Paru en Vers 1930.
  • Casālis . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 3, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, p.  788 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ A b c Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 49.
  2. ↑ a b Facsimile of Mes Souvenirs on gallica.bnf.fr (Bibliothèque nationale de France), accessed on February 13, 2011 (French)
  3. ^ English literature (travel pictures and reports) . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 18, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 263 .: Quotation: "unfavorable for the Boers in relation to their treatment of the natives"
personal data
SURNAME Casalis, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casalis, Jean Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Protestant missionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Orthez
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1891
Place of death Paris