Carl C. Jeremiassen

Jeremiassen's adopted Chinese name
Jeremiassen's adopted Chinese name
Chinese	冶基善
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yě Jīshàn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Iá Ki-siān
Northern Min
Jian'ou Romanized	Iǎ Gí-sīng

Carl C. Jeremiassen (Adopted Chinese name: 冶基善, 1847–1901) was a Danish sea captain. He is known today as the first Protestant missionary to Hainan island and the translator of portions of the Old and New Testament into the Hainanese language.

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