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_Gützlaff_ _Karl Friedrich August_ _1803-1851_

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Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Charles Gutzlaff), was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and Korea (1832). He was also the first Lutheran missionary to China. He was a magistrate in Ningpo and Chusan and the second Chinese Secretary of the British administration in Hong Kong.
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