Giitzlaff

Giitzlaff, Karl Friedrich August (1803-1851), Chinese missionary, was born at Pyritz in Pomerania. His desire was for missionary work, but his parents, who were poor, could not afford the training, and Karl was apprenticed at Stettin. The King of Prussia enabled him to carry out his wishes, and in 1826 he went to Batavia, where he learnt Chinese. He afterwards visited Siam and translated the Bible, and at last he went to Macao and to Hong Kong, where he translated the Bible into Chinese. One of his chief works was to train native missionaries who could carry their doctrines to regions to which Europeans were not admitted.