# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-morrison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:11:29.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-morrison"
name: "Robert Morrison"
slug: "robert-morrison"
description: "Robert Morrison, FRS was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the \"Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature\". Morrison, a Presbyterian preacher, is most notable for his work in China. After twenty-five years of work he translated the whole Bible into the Chinese language and baptized ten Chinese believers, including Cai Gao, Liang Fa, and Wat Ngong. Morrison pioneered the translation of the Bible into Chinese and planned for the distribution of the Scriptures as broadly as possible, unlike the previous Roman Catholic translation work that had never been published."
tagline: "British evangelist and first Christian Protestant missionary to China (1782-1834)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Morrison_by_John_Richard_Wildman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1782-01-05"
deathDate: "1834-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           19.10458
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump