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Robert Henry Mathews

Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary (died 1970)

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Born
July 13, 1877
Died
February 16, 1970
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1877

About Robert Henry Mathews

Robert Henry Mathews (1877–1970) was an Australian missionary and Sinologist, best known for his 1931 A Chinese-English Dictionary: Compiled for the China Inland Mission by R. H. Mathews, which was subsequently revised by Harvard University Press in 1943. He served with the China Inland Mission from 1906, before retiring to Australia in 1945. The CIM then commissioned Mathews to revise Baller's Mandarin Primer, first published in 1900. Baller's Analytical Chinese-English Dictionary, first published in 1900. For his linguistic achievement, the University of Melbourne awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.

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Robert Henry Mathews timeline

  1. The CIM then commissioned Mathews to revise Baller's Mandarin Primer, first published in 1900.
  2. Baller's Analytical Chinese-English Dictionary, first published in 1900.

The world when Robert Henry Mathews was born

Robert Henry Mathews was born in 1877. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineReconstruction ends — federal troops leave the South
  • Technology milestoneThomas Edison invents the phonograph
  • Notable inventionPhonograph — talking machine
  • World population~1.57B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderRutherford B. Hayes
  • U.S. population44.2M

1877 versus 2026

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Measure18772026
Population44.2M341 million

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