| LC control no. | nr 92029165 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | King, Jonas, 1792-1869 |
| Variant(s) | Kīn, Yūnus |
| Biography/History note | He was a congregationalist missionary from Massachusetts, who went on missions first in Syria (1823-1826) and then in Greece (from 1828). He was famously prosecuted for his controversial Farewell letter to friends on leaving Syria, which stated his reasons for not converting to Catholicism. He also wrote in and translated missionary texts into modern Greek. |
| Associated country | United States Syria Greece |
| Birth date | 1792-07-29 |
| Death date | 1869-05-22 |
| Place of birth | Hawley (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Athens (Greece) |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries Translators |
| Found in | His Extract of a letter from Jonas King, 1830. Bliss, E.M. The encyclopaedia of missions, 1891: v.1, p. 526 (King, Jonas; missionary; b. 7/29/1792; d. 5/22/1869) Dictionary of American biography, 1872: p. 511 (Jonas King, D.D. (N.J. College, 1832); he was a Cong. clergyman and missionary to Greece; born in Hawley, Ms. [Massachusetts] on July 29, 1792; died Athens, Greece, May 22, 1869; missionary in Palestine (1823-1826), then returned to the US and was sent on the Greek mission in 1828; his "Farewell Letter" to friends on leaving Syria, stating his reasons for not converting to Catholicism, became the basis of a prosecution against him in 1852; he translated missionary texts into modern Greek and published his own works in that language) Salwat, 1865: t.p. (Yūnus Kīn al-Amīrkānī) |
| Associated language | eng gre |
| Invalid LCCN | nr 94033011 |
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