Ernest Droese
The Reverend Ernest Droese CMS | |
|---|---|
Ernst Dröse | |
| Born | December 7, 1817 Thorn, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | April 19, 1891 (aged 73) Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, British India |
| Occupation | Missionary |
| Organization | Church Missionary Society |
Ernest Droese (German: Ernst Dröse, 7 December 1817 – 19 April 1891), was a German Protestant missionary and translator who worked with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in British India.[1] He is known for translating parts of the Bible into the Malto language and for his work among tribal communities in eastern India.[2]
History
[edit]Droese was originally trained as a silversmith before studying at the seminary of the Berlin Missionary Society, which sent him to India in 1842.[3][4] He began his missionary work in Ghazipur and Benares. In 1849, he joined the Church Missionary Society and was posted to Bhagalpur in Bihar,[5] where he helped establish a church, schools, and orphanages with support from the British colonial administration. His focus later shifted to the Rajmahal Hills,[6] where he worked among the Malto people, translating portions of the Bible into their language and producing a grammar and dictionary, published as Introduction to the Malto Language in 1884.[7] He also worked among the Santal community.[8] Droese retired in 1888 and spent his final years in Landour, where he died in 1891.
References
[edit]- ^ Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.
- ^ Driem, George van (2022-09-12). Languages of the Himalayas: Volume 2. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-51492-8.
- ^ Badley, Brenton Hamline (1881). Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume. Methodist Episcopal Church Press.
- ^ The Church Missionary Gleaner. Church Missionary Society. 1891.
- ^ Stock, Eugene (1899). The History of the Church Missionary Society: Its Environment, Its Men and Its Work. Church Missionary Society.
- ^ The Athenaeum. J. Lection. 1885.
- ^ Hunter, William Wilson (1886). The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Trübner & Company.
- ^ Andersen, Peter B. (2022-11-22). The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856: The Call of Thakur. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-78087-1.