Lambuth, Walter Russell

Japanese: ランバス - Ｌａｍｂｕｔｈ，ＷａｌｔｅｒＲｕｓｓｅｌ

Year of death: September 26, 1921
Born: November 10, 1854
A missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South in the United States during the Meiji and Taisho periods. Born in Shanghai as the eldest son of missionary JW Lambuth. He graduated from Emory and Henry University in 1875 and Vanderbilt University in 1877, studying theology and medicine. He married in the same year and was immediately appointed as a missionary. After serving as a medical missionary in China, he was transferred to Kobe with his parents in 1886. The "Reading House" he established in the settlement developed into Palmore Academy and Kwansei Gakuin, and he served as the first president of Kwansei Gakuin. He also contributed to the establishment of the Kobe Women's Missionary School (one of the origins of Seiwa University), which was established by his mother, IM Lambuth, and Hiroshima Jogakuin. In 1892, he was appointed director of the Overseas Mission Bureau of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South, and in 1908, he was appointed bishop, and worked in Cuba, Mexico, Africa, and other places, playing an active role as a central figure in the sect's global missionary work that did not stop in Japan. He died of illness in Yokohama. <References> Yamazaki Haruo, "To the Ends of the Earth"

(Rui Kohiyama)

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Japanese:

没年：大正10.9.26(1921)
生年：1854.11.10
明治大正期のアメリカ南メソジスト監督派の宣教師。宣教師J.W.ランバスの長男として上海に生まれる。1875年エモリー・アンド・ヘンリー大学,1877年ヴァンダービルト大学を卒業し,神学と医学を修める。同年結婚,直ちに宣教師の任命を受け,中国で医療伝道ののち,明治19(1886)年両親と共に神戸に転任。居留地に設立した「読書館」はパルモア学院,関西学院に発展し,関西学院初代院長を務める。母I.M.ランバスの設立した神戸婦人伝道学校(聖和大学の一源流),広島女学院の設立にも貢献。同25年南メソジスト監督派海外伝道局主事,同43年監督に任命されキューバ,メキシコ,アフリカなどで伝道,日本に留まらない同派の世界伝道事業の中心人物として活躍。横浜で病没。<参考文献>山崎治夫『地の果てまで』

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