John Chalmers (missionary)
John Chalmers (1825–1899) was a Scottish Protestant missionary in late Qing Dynasty China and translator. His work An English and Cantonese Pocket Dictionary (1859) popularized the term "Cantonese". Before 1859, Cantonese was referred in English as "the Canton dialect".
Chalmers served with the London Missionary Society. He wrote several works on the Chinese language, including, in 1866, the first translation into English of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (which he called the Tau Teh King).
John Chalmers | |
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Chalmers and his wife Helen, taken in Nagasaki | |
| Born | 24 October 1825 New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Died | 22 November 1899 (aged 74) Incheon, South Korea |
| Spouse |
Helen Morison
(m. 1852; died 1897) |
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