Lewis Hodous
Lewis Hodous (born December 31, 1872 , † August 9, 1949 ), chin. 何乐益, was an American missionary , sinologist and Buddhologist .
Life
From 1902 to 1912 he was president of the Fuzhou Theological Seminary . He later headed the Union of Theological Seminars in Fuzhou, which he himself had founded from 1914 to 1917. Lewis Hodous was Professor of the Chinese Department at the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford until 1945 .
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He is the author of Buddhism and Buddhists in China and, together with William Edward Soothill (1861–1935), the Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist terms. With Sanskrit and English Eqivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index . He is also the author of:
- Folkways in China , Probsthain (December 1929), ISBN 0-85382-025-2 ( Probsthain's Oriental Series )
- Buddhism and Buddhists in China , Indypublish.Com 2007, ISBN 1-4280-6132-0
literature
- Lucius Chapin Porter, "Lewis Hodous, December 31, 1872 - August 9, 1949." The Far Eastern Quarterly , Vol. 1. (Nov. 1950): 63-68.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Christianity in China: a scholars' guide to resources in the libraries and archives of the United States , by Archie R. Crouch, Verlag ME Sharpe, 1989, page 37, ISBN 0-87332-419-6 [1]
- ↑ [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hodous, Lewis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American missionary, sinologist and Buddhologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1872 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1949 |