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CAREY, WILLIAM (1761-1834)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 329 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CAREY, WILLIAM (1761-1834) , English Oriental scholar, and the
pioneer
  of modern missionary enterprise, was born at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, on the 17th of August 1761. When a youth he worked as a shoemaker; but having joined the Baptists when he was about twenty-one, he devoted much of his time to
village
  preaching. In 1787 he became pastor of a Baptist church in Leicester, and began those energetic movements among his fellow religionists which resulted in the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society, Carey himself being one of the first to go abroad. On reaching Bengal in 1793, he and his companions lost all their property in the Hugli; but having received the charge of an indigo factory at Malda, he was soon able to prosecute the
work
  of translating the Bible into
Bengali
 . In 1799 he quitted Malda for Serampore, where he established a church, a school, and a printing-press for the publication of the Scriptures and philological works. In 1801 Carey was appointed professor of Oriental languages in a college founded at Fort William by the marquess of Wellesley. From this time to his death he devoted himself to the preparation of numerous philological works, consisting of grammars and dictionaries in the Mahratta,, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Telinga,
Bengali
  and Bhotanta dialects. The Sanskrit dictionary was unfortunately destroyed by a fire which broke out in the printing
establishment
 . From the Serampore press there issued in his lifetime over 200,000 Bibles and portions in nearly
forty
  different languages and dialects, Carey himself undertaking most of the literary
work
 . He died on the 9th of June 1834.
See Lives by J. Culross (1881) and G.
Smith
  (1884).


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