Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Kenneth Scott Latourette (born August 6, 1884 in Oregon City , † December 26, 1968 there ) was an American , Baptist sinologist , historian and missionary scholar . His most famous work was published under the title History of the Expansion of Christianity (1937-1945) .

Life

The son of the lawyer DeWitt Clinton Latourette and the teacher Rhoda (Scott) Latourette studied at Linfield College in Oregon, which he graduated in 1904 with a Bachelor of Science . This was followed by history studies until 1907. From 1910 to 1912 he worked in the branch of the University in Changsha , China . Due to illness, Latourette returned to the United States and taught at various universities, including a. from 1914 at Reed College in Portland and from 1916 at Denison University in Granville (Ohio) . In 1918 he was a Baptist minister ordained and worked since then as a part-time university chaplain. In 1921 he became professor of missiology at Yale University in New Haven, where he received the Sterling Professorship in Missionary and Oriental History in 1949. In 1953 he retired.

Latourette belonged to numerous scientific and ecclesiastical associations, u. a. of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , of which he served as president in 1948. Seventeen universities have awarded him honorary doctorates .

Publications (selection)

  • The development of China. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1917.
  • The Development of Japan. Macmillan, New York 1918.
  • A history of Christian missions in China , 1929.
  • A Short History of the Far East. Macmillan, New York 1946.
    • History of the Far East over the past hundred years. Metzner, Frankfurt a. M. 1959.
  • A History of modern China. Penguin, London 1954.
    • History of Modern China. Goldmann, Munich 1963.
  • The Chinese, their history and culture , 1934, expanded edition 1945.
  • A History of the Expansion of Christianity , I-VII, New York 1937-1945.
    • History of the spread of Christianity . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1956 (comprehensive German translation by Richard M. Honig).
  • Christianity in a revolutionary age: A history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Vol. I – V. Harper & brothers, New York 1958–1962.

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SURNAME Latourette, Kenneth Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sinologist, historian, and missionary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Oregon City
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1968
Place of death Oregon City