LC control no. | n 83126627 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Wolff, Joseph, 1795-1862 |
Variant(s) | Wolf, Joseph, 1795-1862 |
Associated place | Great Britain Asia |
Birth date | 1795 |
Death date | 1862 |
Place of birth | Bavaria (Electorate) |
Field of activity | Missions to Jews |
Affiliation | London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide |
Profession or occupation | Missionaries Travelers |
Found in | Davy, Y. Trail on peril, c1984 (subj.) CIP t.p. (Joseph Wolff) LC data base, 8/10/83 (hdg.: Wolff, Joseph, 1795-1862) His Missionary journal and memoir, of the Rev. Joseph Wolf, missionary to the Jews, 1824. Biographical dictionary of Christian missions, 1998: page 746 (born in Weilersbach, Bavaria, Germany; he studied Roman Catholic and Lutheran theology but was expelled from the Propaganda Fide institute in Rome because of his interest in Anglican theology; he went to England and was baptized into the Anglican Church in 1819; trained with the London Jews' Society and and became a missionary to the Jews in 1821 and traveled throughout Asia) |
Associated language | eng |