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James S. Gale (February 19, 1863 – January 31, 1937) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary, educator and Bible translator in Korea. ==Life== The main source for information about the life of James Scarth Gale is the extensively researched ''Biography'' written by Richard Rutt that forms part (pages 1–88) of Rutt's edition of Gale's ''History of the Korean People'' (published in Seoul by the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, 1972, 1983). Most of what follows is based on Rutt's account. James Scarth Gale (in modern Korean 제임스 스카스 게일, in old Sino-Korean characters 奇一) was born February 19, 1863 in Alma, Ontario, Canada. He married twice: *April 7, 1892 to Harriet E. Gibson Heron, the widow of John W. Heron, M.D., also of the American Presbyterian Mission, North, who had died in Korea on June 26, 1890. Harriet Gale died on March 29, 1908 aged 48. *April 7, 1910 to Ada Louisa Sale (born in Cheshire, England 1871). Her father, George Sale, was a businessman in Japan. In 1882 Gale entered St. Catharine’s Collegiate Institute, St. Catharines, Ontario. From 1884 to 1888 Gale studied arts at the University of Toronto, including the summer of 1886 at the Collège de France, Paris on a language course. During his first year of study he heard Dwight L. Moody preach and was deeply impressed. On graduation, April 12, 1888 he was appointed a missionary of Toronto University's YMCA and was sent to Korea. On November 13, 1888 he set sail from Vancouver, arriving in Pusan on 12 December, from where he took a coastal vessel to Chemulpo, present Incheon. In 1889 he visited Haeju, in Hwanghae province and from there moved to Sollae (often called Sorae) village, in Jangyeon District, Hwanghae from March to June. This village was home to Seo Sang-yun, one of the first Korean Protestants, and his brother who had been baptized by Horace Grant Underwood. From August 1889 to May 1890 he lived in Pusan. In 1890 he taught English at the "Christian School" (예수교 학당). In February 1891 he and Samuel A. Moffet visited John Ross (missionary) (who had first attempted to translate the Bible into Korean) in Mukden, Manchuria and returned to Seoul in June. In August 1891, terminating the relationship with the Toronto University YMCA, he moved to the American Presbyterian Mission Board, North. From 1892-1897 the Gales lived in Wonsan while Gale served as member of the “Board of Official Translators” of the Korean Bible. He worked with Henry G. Appenzeller, Horace G. Underwood, William B. Scranton, and William D. Reynolds. In 1897 he returned to Canada and the USA, and on May 13 was ordained as a Presbyterian minister at New Albany Presbytery, Indiana. In 1900 he became the first minister of Yondong Presbyterian Church (:ko:연동교회) in Seoul. As an educationalist, he founded the Jesus Church Middle School, present Kongsin Middle and High School, as well as Yondong Girls’ School, presently Chongsin Girls’ School, in Seoul. He was also a professor, of Pyongyang Theological Seminary. In 1904 he organized the Association of Korean Education with the members of the Yondong Church. In 1917 he founded the Korean Music Society. 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「James Scarth Gale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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