James Chalmers (missionary)

James Chalmers on the cover of a 1903 publication.

James Chalmers (born August 4, 1841 in Ardrishaig , Argyleshire , Scotland , † April 8, 1901 ) was a Scottish Christian missionary of the London Missionary Society in Rarotonga and New Guinea .

He served ten years in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands , later he stayed in New Guinea for 23 years and was considered one of the best experts on the region. He was killed and eaten on Goaribari Island in 1901 with his companion Oliver Tomkins . Twenty-four Goaribari were killed in return by Sir George Le Hunte . Because of his moving martyr fate, there are plenty of biographies.

Works

• James Chalmers, W. Wyatt Gill: Work and Adventure in New Guinea 1877 to 1885. St Paul's Churchyard The Religious Tract Society. London 1885
• James Chalmers and W. Wyatt Gill : New Guinea: Travel and Missionary Activities during the years 1877 to 1885. [Translator: Richard Lesser] Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1886
• Adventures in New Guinea. 1886
• Pioneering in New Guinea. London 1887
• Pioneer Life and Work in New Guinea 1877-1894. 1895.

Biographical literature

• Richard Lovett: James Chalmers, His Auto-Biography and Letters. Religious Tract Society 1902 ( digitized version )
• William Robson: James Chalmers. Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea. London, S: W. Partridge & Co., 1903
• Cuthbert Lennox: James Chalmers of New Guinea: Missionary, Pioneer, Martyr. Melrose, 1902
• Luise Oehler: Tamate. From the life of James Chalmers, pioneer and martyr of the New Guinea Mission. Calw and Stuttgart, Verlag der Vereinsbuchhandlung., 1904 ( Calw family library 61st volume)
• Diane Langmore: Tamate - A King; James Chalmers New Guinea 1877–1901. Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Press 1974, ISBN 0-522-84079-5
• PM Stevenson: James Chalmers. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1953
• Brenda Hughes: King among the Cannibals - The Story of James Chalmers. London Lutterworth Press 1959

literature

• Simon Haberberger: Colonialism and Cannibalism: Cases from German New Guinea and British New Guinea 1884-1914. Bayreuth, Univ., Diss., 2004
• Peter Maiden: Missionaries, Headhunters & Colonial Officers. British New Guinea and the Goaribari Affray - 1860s-1907. ISBN 1-876780-29-0 .

Web links

• Patricia A. Prendergast: James Chalmers . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
• Diane Langmoret: Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
• Short biography u. a. (engl.)
• Nahlah Saimeh: Like to eat - cannibalism from a psychiatric point of view (PDF file; 238 kB)