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The Reverend Edwin William Smith (1876–1957) was a Primitive Methodist missionary/anthropologist and author who was born in South Africa, studied at Elmfield College from 1888, and then worked in Africa.. He was born at Aliwal North, South Africa, on 7 September 1876. His parents were missionaries of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. His father, John Smith (1840–1915), went to Aliwal North in 1874 and spent ten of the next fourteen years there. Returning to London, he became secretary of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in the 1890s and president of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1898. In 1899 he married Julia, daughter of James Fitch of Peasenhall, Suffolk. He served in Africa as a missionary of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1898-1915. ==Major works== (selected from thirty-five titles) *1907 ''Handbook of the Ila Language''. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. *1915 ''Ila New Testament'' (trans.). London: British and Foreign Bible Society. *1920 (with Andrew Murray Dale). ''The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia''. London: Macmillan. *1923 ''The Religion of Lower Races''. New York: Macmillan. *1926 ''The Christian Mission in Africa''. London: International Missionary Council. *1926 ''The Golden Stool''. London: Holborn Publishing House. *1929 ''Aggrey of Africa''. London: Student Christian Movement. *1929 ''The Secret of the African''. London: Student Christian Movement. *1929 ''The Shrine of a People's Soul''. London: Church Missionary Society. *1936 ''African Beliefs and Christian Faith''. London: Lutterworth Press. *The Mabilles of Basutoland. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939 *''The secret of the African. United Society for Christian'', 1943 (Seven lectures delivered as "Long lectures" in 1927-28, at the invitation of the Church Missionary Society.) *''African beliefs and Christian faith''. United Society for Christian, 1943 *''Knowing the African''. United Society for Christian, 1946 *''The life and times of Daniel Lindley 1801-80''. The Epworth Press 1949 *''The Blessed Missionaries'': Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures delivered in Cape Town in 1949; with foreword by Sir Herbert Stanl. Kapstadt: Oxford U.P, 1950 * ''African Ideas of God''. London: Edinburgh House Press. *''Great Lion of Bechuanaland'': the Life and Times of Roger Price, Missionary and Statesman, London 1957 Archival materials on Smith are to be found in three locations: * (1) The Methodist Missionary Society Archives, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. These items include diaries, translation work, journalistic material, photograph albums, and some unpublished material. * (2) Bible Society Archives, Cambridge, England. These items include diaries and reports for India, 1938–39, correspondence, and drafts of John 1-6 in Basic and Simplified English. * (3) In the Hartford Seminary Archives, Hartford, Connecticut. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin W. Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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