| LC control no. | n 50000259 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883 |
| Associated country | Great Britain South Africa Botswana |
| Associated place | Kuruman (South Africa) |
| Birth date | 1795-12-21 |
| Death date | 1883-08-09 |
| Place of birth | Ormiston (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Leigh (Kent, England) |
| Field of activity | Missions--South Africa Tswana (African people)--Missions Bible--Translating |
| Affiliation | London Missionary Society |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries Translators |
| Found in | Robert Moffat, 1888? Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 15, 2013 (Robert Moffat (missionary); b. Dec. 21,1795, in Ormiston, East Lothian; d. Aug. 9, 1883, at Leigh near Tunbridge Wells; Scottish Congregationalist missionary to South Africa with the London Missionary Society; father-in-law of David Livingstone) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moffat_(missionary)> Dictionary of African Christian Biography (online), viewed April 25, 2024 (Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883, Presbyterian, South Africa; missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and Botswana for more than 60 years; raised as a Presbyterian; influenced by Methodism; determined to become a missionary, joined the London Missionary Society in 1816; arrived in Cape Town in January 1817; studied Dutch at Stellenbosch University until January 1818, then began work in Great Namaqualand; married fianceĢe Mary Smith in Cape Town in 1819; an LMS delegation persuaded him to work among the Tswana (Bechuana); settled at first at Dithakong in 1821 among the Tlhaping (a Tswana people); moved to Kuruman and began to translate the Bible into the Tlhaping dialect; acquired a printing press which he took to Kuruman by ox-wagon; had to travel to Britain to have his translation of the New Testament published in 1840; while there he met with David Livingston and persuaded him to travel to Africa; Livingstone began his African travels from Kuruman in 1849; daughter Mary married Livingstone [in 1845]; he continued to translate and print the Old Testament, resulting in the first translation of the Bible into a South African language; he and his wife retired to England in England, where she died at Brixton in 1871; he died in 1883) |
| Associated language | eng tsn |
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