Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg monument in Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu, South India Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (June 10, 1682 - February 23, 1719) was a member of the Lutheran clergy and the first Protestant missionary to India. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1370x1420, 354 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tharangambadi Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg ...
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Ziegenbalg was born in the village of Pulsnitz in Saxony on June 10, 1682 to poor but pious parents. He showed an aptitude for music at an early age. He studied at the University of Halle under the teaching of A. H. Francke, then the center of Pietistic Lutheranism. The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stat Sakska) is a federal state of Germany. ...
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He answered the call of King Frederick IV of Denmark for clergy who would spread the Gospel in India. On July 9, 1706, Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau arrived in the region of Tranquebar, thus becoming the first Protestant missionaries to arrive on the sub-continent. The two labored intensively, despite opposition from the local Hindu and Danish authorities in Tranquebar, baptizing their first Indian converts on May 12, 1707. Frederick IV Frederick IV (October 11, 1671 - October 12, 1730) king of Denmark and Norway from 1699. ...
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Despite opposition from the Copenhagen Mission Society which sponsored Ziegenbalg’s mission, he felt that the preaching of the Gospel also included the care of souls and concern for the social wellbeing of converts (the society had simply wanted missionaries to preach the Gospel and allow indigenous churches to develop without much further instruction out of a concern that such a church would be nothing more than a transplant of European Christianity).
Ziegenbalg was jailed by the Danish authorities for four months during 1708-1709 for reasons which are connected to the rivalry between the different Christian clergy in Tranquebar. In 1708 a dispute over whether the illegitimate child of a Danish soldier and a non-Christian woman should be baptized and brought up as a Catholic or a Protestant resulted in Ziegenbalg’s colleague, Heinrich Plütschau, being brought before a court. Although Plütschau was released, Ziegenbalg wrote that 'the Catholics rejoiced, that we were persecuted and they were authorized', and he connected this incident, which he took to have emboldened the Catholics, directly with the second, a fortnight later, which resulted in his imprisonment. This incident arose from Ziegenbalg’s intervention on behalf of the widow of a Tamil barber, over a debt between her late husband and a Catholic who was employed by the Company as a translator. The commander of the Danish fort in Tranquebar, Hassius, regarded Ziegenbalg's repeated intervention in the case, including his advice that the widow kneel before him in the Danish church, as inappropriate and sent for Ziegenbalg to appear before him. When Ziegenbalg demurred, requesting a written summons, he was arrested and, because he refused to answer questions, imprisoned. Although released after a little more than four months, Ziegenbalg’s relationship with Hassius remained difficult and was one reason for Ziegenbalg's return to Europe in 1714-1716. Ziegenbalg was also married in 1716. He was also active in cooperation with the Anglican Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, making his work one of the first ecumenical ventures in the history of Protestant missionary work. // Events March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague J...
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He left behind a dictionary and grammar in Tamil, his translations of the New Testament and the Old Testament up to the Book of Ruth, several tracts, also in Tamil, two church buildings, a seminary for the training of indigenous clergy, and over 250 baptized Indians. The first Indian bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tamil was consecrated at Tranquebar on the 250th anniversary of Ziegenbalg’s arrival. Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab by William Blake, 1795 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Ruth in Boazs Field, 1828 The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, the Scroll of Ruth) is one of the books of the Ketuvim (Writings) of the Tanakh (the...
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Sources "Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg" in Philip H. Pfatteicher Festivals and Commemorations : Handbook to the Calendar in Lutheran Book of Worship.
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