The legacy of Christian Friedrich Schwartz.(18th century missionary to India)

International Bulletin of Missionary Research | July 1, 1999| | Copyright

Christian Friedrich Schwartz (1726-98) was perhaps the most remarkable missionary of eighteenth-century India. For forty-eight years the influence of this gentle and unassuming forerunner of Anglo-Saxon missionaries reached farther and farther across South India, from Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) southward to Tiruchirapalli (Trichinopoly), to Thanjavur (Tanjore), and to Tirunelveli (Tinnevelly), if not even to Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) and Travancore. Eloquent in many tongues, he won respect and renown as a preacher, schoolmaster, educational innovator, diplomat, envoy, and ...

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