Author: BRINK, H. VAN DEN,
Title: Dr. Benjamin Frederik Matthes; Zijn leven en arbeid in dienst van het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap, 1943. Original cloth, gilded covertitle, gilded title on spine. 590pp. Monochrome illustrations on a large fold. plate, facsim. after a plate appearing in the Ethnographical Atlas to Matthes' Mcassarese-Dutch Glossary (1959-1895), monochrome facsim. illustrations and figures on 7 plates, full page portrait of Matthes, chronology of main events in Matthes' life, footnotes/reverences, appendices, table of contents. Very detailed dutch language biography of Dr. B.F. Matthes, prominent dutch protestant deputy minister, scholar and missionary who worked for an extensive period amongst the Macassarese and Buginese of South Sulawesi, servant to the Dutch Bible Society NBG. Matthes' greatest merit and achievement lies in his compilations of a Macassarese and Buginese dutch dictionaries, the first to be published, anthologies and Bible- and Gospel translations into Macassarese and Buginese languages. Very fine copy printed on India paper.

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