John Van Nest Talmage

John Van Nest Talmage File:John Van Nest Talmage.png Missionary to China Born (1819-08-18)August 18, 1819 Somerville, New Jersey Died Bound Brook, New Jersey Parent(s) David Talmage Catharine Van Neste Relatives Thomas De Witt Talmage, brother

John Van Nest Talmage (18 August 1819 – 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, Fujian, China. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890.

Biography

His younger brother Thomas De Witt Talmage was also a clergyman, and his family, within the Reformed tradition, migrated to North America from the Netherlands. His father's family had emigrated from England, and were the founders of the towns of South Hampton, and East Hampton in New York.

Works

He wrote:

• , an early book on Pe̍h-oē-jī, the Latin orthography for the Chinese Min Nan language.
• Chinese-English Dictionary (1885): dictionary of Amoy vernacular and English

He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China, which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre.

External links

• Talmage Biography (Pitcher, 1893)
• Works by John Van Nest Talmage at Project Gutenberg
• Talmage Biography-Forty Years in South China(Fagg, 1894)