Miron Winslow | |
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| Born | December 11, 1789 |
| Died | October 22, 1864 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Middlebury College |
| Alma mater | Andover Theological Seminary |
| Occupation | Christian missionary |
| Years active | 1819-1864 |
| Notable work | A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil (1862) A History of Missions (1819) |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | John Welsh Dulles (son-in-law) John Foster Dulles (great-grandchild) Allen Welsh Dulles (great-grandchild) Dulles family |
Miron Winslow (11 December 1789 – 22 October 1864) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to the American Ceylon Mission, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where he established a mission at Oodooville and founded a seminary. He founded a mission station at Madras, the first and chief station of the American Madras Mission.[1][2][3][4] Harriet Winslow, his wife, also served as a missionary alongside and wrote a memoir thereof.
He published several books, notably, A History of Missions and A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil, a Tamil to English lexicon which took twenty years of missionary labor to compile sixty-seven thousand Tamil words. This dictionary was based in part on manuscript material of the pastor Joseph Knight, of the London Missionary Society, and the Rev. Samuel Hutchings, of the American mission, and was the most complete dictionary of a modern Indian language published at that time.[1][4][5] The book later become the basis for the more exhaustive Tamil Lexicon dictionary published by the University of Madras in 1924.
John Foster Dulles, the US Secretary of State (1953-1959), and Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of the CIA (1953-1961), were his great-grandchildren through his daughter Harriet Lathrop Winslow and her husband John Welsh Dulles.[6]
- ^ a b Clark, Joseph Sylvester; Dexter, Henry Martyn; Quint, Alonzo Hall; Langworthy, Isaac Pendleton; Cushing, Christopher; Burnham, Samuel (1865). The Congregational quarterly, Volume 7. pp. 209–210.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Wilder, Royal Gould (1861). Mission schools in India of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. A. D. F. Randolph. pp. 360-.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Howland, William Ware; James Herrick; Jim Herrick (1865). Historical sketch of the Ceylon mission. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. p. 44.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b Allibone, Samuel Austin (1871). A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors. Childs & Peterson. pp. 2793–2794.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Louis, Le Brun; Henri van Laun (1869). Materials for translating from English into French, a short essay on translation; followed by a selection by L. Le Brun. p. 227.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ From Zion Church to the CIA. The Hindu.