[KS] Greek and Latin studies in Korea

[Sung Deuk Oak]

Dear Dr. Wadas,
Greek was taught to the students of the Union Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang from 1916.The first teacher was Rev. Gelson Engel (1868-1938), who was born in Wuthemberg, Germany and worked as a missionary of the Victorian Presbyterian Mission of Australia, in Pusan from 1900 to 1937.
At the Union Methodist Theological Seminary in Seoul, Greek was also taught from around 1920.(There were only these two Protestant seminaries in Korea up to 1930s.)    Best,
Sung Deuk OakUCLA 


> From: frausch at lander.edu
> To: andrzejwadas at yahoo.co.uk; koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 17:27:05 -0500
> Subject: Re: [KS] Greek and Latin studies in Korea
> 
> Dear Dr. Wadas,
> 
> I think the teaching of Latin in Korea would have begun in the nineteenth century with the coming of French Catholic missionaries.  I deal somewhat with that issue in my article "Saving Knowledge" (published in Acta Koreana 11, no.3 (December 8)).  The Korean Church History Institute (한국교회사연구소) has released an edited and translated collection of the first Korean priest's letters (성 김대건 안드레아 신부의 서한).  In my study of Korean Catholicism in the ninteenth century I haven't run across any references to the teaching of Greek.  I hope this is of some help.
> 
> Yours truly,
> Franklin Rausch
> 
> --
> Dr. Franklin D. Rausch
> Assistant Professor of History
> Department of History & Philosophy
> Lander University
> 320 Stanley Avenue
> Greenwood, SC 29649-2099
> 
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> From: Koreanstudies [koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws] On Behalf Of Andrzej Wadas [andrzejwadas at yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 7:27 AM
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> Subject: [KS] Greek and Latin studies in Korea
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> Dear List Members,
> 
> I would be grateful for any information about Greek and Latin studies in Korea in the past and now.
> 
> Andrzej Wadas, Krakow, Poland
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