Author:Robert Morrison

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Robert Morrison
(1782–1834)

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Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca. A pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator

Works

Horae Sinicae: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese (1812)
Hsin i Chao Shu (1813) (external scan)
Translations from the Original Chinese, with Notes (1815)
A Grammar of the Chinese Language (1815) (external scan)
Urh-chĭh-tsze-tëen-se-yĭn-pe-keáou; being a parallel drawn between the two intended Chinese dictionaries, with Antonio Montucci (external scan)
A view of China for philological purposes, containing a sketch of Chinese chronology, geography, government, religion & customs (1817) (external scan)

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: Chinese and English arranged according to the radicals (1819-20)
Chinese miscellany; consisting of original extracts from Chinese authors, in the native character (1825) (external scan)
Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect: Chinese words and phrases (1828) (external scan)

Works about Morrison

"Morrison, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Morrison, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Memoirs of the life and labours Robert Morrison, by Eliza A. Morrison (1839) (external scan)

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