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John Van Nest Talmage Wikipedia

Image:JVNT1.png|right|thumb|John Van Nest Talmage
John Van Nest Talmage (Chinese language|Chinese: 打馬字; born Somerville, New Jersey, 18 August 1819; died 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, China.
He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890.

His younger brother Thomas De Witt Talmage was also a clergyman, and his family, within the Reformed Church|Reformed tradition, migrated to North America from the Netherlands.

He wrote:

• Tn̂g-oē Hoan-jī Chho??-ha̍k (唐話番字初學, 1852): an early book on Pe̍h-oē-jī, the Latin orthography for the Chinese Minnan language.

• Chinese-English Dictionary (1885): dictionary of Amoy vernacular and English language|English

He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China, a biography.

Last Modified:   2005-11-04