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William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was a British missionary, a Particular Baptist minister, a translator and an activist. He also opened the first University in (Serampore) India offering degrees.〔http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-14547355〕〔Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity Vol. 2 p. 306〕 He is known as the "father of modern missions."〔 His essay, ''An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens'', led to the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society.〔〔William Carey, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens (1792; repr., London: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1961)〕 He went to Kolkata (India) in 1793, but was forced to leave the British Indian territory by non-Baptist missionaries.〔 He joined the Baptist missionaries in the Danish colony of Frederiksnagar in India (Serampore), and there he lived with people ravaged by extreme poverty and diseases.〔Brian K. Pennington (2005), Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction, pp. 72-74, Oxford University Press〕 He translated the Bible into Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Arabic, Hindi and Sanskrit.〔(William Carey British missionary ) Encyclopædia Britannica〕 William Carey has been called a social reformer and illustrious Christian missionary,〔Vishal Mangalwadi (1999), The Legacy of William Carey: A Model for the Transformation of a Culture, pp. 61-67, ISBN 978-1581341126〕 as well as a colonial ideologue with prejudice, hyperbole and concealed racism.〔〔V Rao (2007), Contemporary Education, pp. 17-18, ISBN 978-8131302736〕 ==Early life== William Carey, the oldest of five children, was born to Edmund and Elizabeth Carey, who were weavers by trade in the village of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire. William was raised in the Church of England; when he was six, his father was appointed the parish clerk and village schoolmaster. As a child he was naturally inquisitive and keenly interested in the natural sciences, particularly botany. He possessed a natural gift for language, teaching himself Latin. At the age of 14, Carey's father apprenticed him to a cobbler in the nearby village of Piddington, Northamptonshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Glimpses #45: William Carey's Amazing Mission )〕 His master, Clarke Nichols, was a churchman like himself, but another apprentice, John Warr, was a Dissenter. Through his influence Carey would eventually leave the Church of England and join with other Dissenters to form a small Congregational church in nearby Hackleton. While apprenticed to Nichols, he also taught himself Greek with the help of a local villager who had a college education. When Nichols died in 1779, Carey went to work for the local shoemaker, Thomas Old; he married Old's sister-in-law Dorothy Plackett in 1781 in the Church of St John the Baptist, Piddington. Unlike William, Dorothy was illiterate; her signature in the marriage register is a crude cross. William and Dorothy Carey had seven children, five sons and two daughters; both girls died in infancy, as well as son Peter, who died at the age of 5. Thomas Old himself died soon afterward, and Carey took over his business, during which time he taught himself Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, and French, often reading while working on his shoes. Carey acknowledged his humble origins and referred to himself as a cobbler (one who repairs shoes). However, the local community often knew him by the higher status of a shoemaker. John Brown Myers entitled his biography of Carey ''William Carey the Shoemaker Who Became the Father and Founder of Modern Missions''. 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「William Carey (missionary)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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