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Wolff, Joseph, 1795-1862

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Personal name headingWolff, Joseph, 1795-1862
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Variant(s)Wolf, Joseph, 1795-1862
Associated placeGreat Britain Asia
Birth date1795
Death date1862
Place of birthBavaria (Electorate)
Field of activityMissions to Jews
AffiliationLondon Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide
Profession or occupationMissionaries Travelers
Found inDavy, 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 languageeng