Ernst Johann Eitel (歐德理) or alternatively Ernest John Eitel (13th February, 1838-1908) was a German missionary born in Württemberg, Germany. (Redirected from 13th February) February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Württemberg (often spelled Wurttemberg in English) refers to an area and a former state in Swabia, a region in south-western Germany. ...

Missionary

He was served in Evangelical Church of Württemberg as pastor. He later came to Lilang, Xin'an district in Guangdong, China under the Basle Missionary Society. In April 1865 he transferred to the London Missionary Society at Guangzhou to take in charge of the Boluo Mission and the Hakka villages outside Guangzhou. In January 1870 he moved to Hong Kong while still having charge of the Boluo Mission. In 1875 he became Director of Chinese Studies. In April 1879 he resigned from the London Missionary Society. Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... The London Missionary Society was an Anglican and Nonconformist missionary society formed in England in 1795 with missions in the islands of the South Pacific and Africa. ... Location within China Canton, China redirects here. ... Hakka (Traditional Chinese: 客家; Simplified Chinese: 客家; Pinyin: ; literal meaning guest families) are a Han Chinese people whose ancestors are said to originate from around Henan and Shanxi in northern China over 2700 years ago. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Official

He then became Inspector of Schools in Hong Kong and later Chinese Secretary to Sir John Pope Hennessy. Sir John Hennessy Sir John Pope-Hennessy, KCMG (Chinese Translated Name 軒尼詩) (1834 - 1891) was a British politician and Colonial Administrator, who became the 8th Governor of Hong Kong // Early Life Sir John Pope Hennessy was born in 1834 in Ireland. ...

In 1866 he married Mary Anne Winifred Eaton of the Female Education Society. He died in Adelaide, Australia, in 1908. 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Cantonese Dictionary

Eitel has published its Cantonese dictionary, Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect in 1877. It is based on a Cantonese glossary dictionary Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect written in 1856 by Samuel Wells Williams, expanding with the work of James Legge and Kangxi Dictionary. His publication was intended to standardise the pronunciation of Cantonese. 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Ezra Pounds annotations on his copy of James Legges translation of the Book of Poetry (Shih Ching), in the Sacred Books of the East. ... The Kangxi Dictionary (Chinese: 康熙字典; pinyin: ) was a dictionary, compiled under an edict from the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi of China in 1710. ...

His work was criticised by S. L. Wong in the book A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton that it inherited the inaccuracy from former works.

Publication

• Feng-Shui, Or, The Rudiments Of Natural Science In China (1873)
• A Chinese dictionary in the Cantonese dialect (1877)
• The central school : can it justify its raison d'etre? (1877)
• Buddhism : its historical, theoretical and popular aspects (1884)
• Chinese School-Books (1893)
• Europe In China : The History Of Hongkong From The Beginning To The Year 1882 (1895)

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External links

• bibliography
• Chinese Dictionaries