George J. Geis

Burma in 1886. Geis worked in the northeast Kachin and eastern Shan states.

The Reverend George J. Geis (c. 1860 – October 28, 1936) was an American Baptist minister and anthropologist of German descent, best known for his missionary work in northeastern Burma. He promoted Christianity amongst the Kachin people, a group which he also studied, collecting general ethnographical data about them.[1] He arrived in Burma with his wife in 1892, and spent most of the rest of his life there, establishing missions throughout Kachin State and Shan State.[2] Geis is best known for his work in Myitkyina in Kachin State, but in the 1930s he established a mission in Kutkai in Shan State, and at the time of his death in 1936 was working there at the Kachin Bible Training School.[3][4]

  1. ^ American anthropologist, Volume 10 (1908), American Anthropological Association
  2. ^ John P. Ferguson (1981). Essays on Burma. Brill Archive. ISBN 90-04-06323-4.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Tegenfeldt1974 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Baptist missionary magazine, Volume 80. American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, American Baptist Missionary Union. 1900. p. 196.