Malagasy Dictionary and Encyclopedia : cousinswilliamedward

Cousins William Edward

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Explanations in English

William Cousins was an English missionary to Madagascar. Born in Abingdon, England, Cousins studied at Bedford and married Abigail Williams. He was one of the first groups of missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS) to Madagascar in 1862 after the end of a long period of persecution. He was put in charge of one of the chief city churches in Antananarivo, which like other city churches, carried responsibility for a cluster of village churches in central Madagascar. In 1872 the five Protestant missions in the country decided to produce a new translation of the Bible, since growing missionary knowledge of the language had revealed many weaknesses in the first translation. Cousins was put in charge of the work, which was his chief occupation for 14 years. He was a strong advocate of missionary control over the admission of church members and over the appointment of all local pastors and preachers. At the same time, he tried to defend the church from control by the government, which assumed that the pre-Christian unity of state and religion would continue after national conversion to Christianity. He resigned from the mission in 1899 and was sent the following year as an LMS delegate to the Ecumenical Missionary Conference in New York. After a long period of retirement in England, he was killed in a street accident shortly before his ninety-ninth birthday. [5.en.https://dacb.org/stories/madagascar/cousins-william/]

Explanations in French

William Edward Cousins (1839-1938)
Missionnaire anglais arrivé à Tananarive le 2 septembre 1862. Habile à s'assimiler la langue malgache, il fut bientôt mis à la tête des correcteurs de la Bible déjà traduite en malgache et dont une première édition avait paru le 21 juin 1835. Mais son principal mérite fut d'avoir recueilli et transcrit discours et coutumes autochtones dans des petits volumes intéressants et précieux: Ny Ohabolan' ny Ntaolo (1871, en collaboration avec J. Parrett), Malagasy Kabary (1873), Cousins sy Randzavola: Fomba Malagasy (1876). [1.11]

Literary works

A Concise Introduction to the Malagasy Language: being pages xiv to lix of A New Malagasy-English Dictionary
Fomba Malagasy 1931
Introduction to the Malagasy Language: A concise Introduction to the Malagasy Language as spoken in Imerina
Malagasy Kabary: from the time of Andrianampoinimerina 1873
Ny Ohabolan' ny Ntaolo 1885

Entry	Cousins William Edward
Elementary words	Cousins ; William ; Edward
Part of speech	name (anthroponym) [full list]
Explanations in English	William Cousins was an English missionary to Madagascar. Born in Abingdon, England, Cousins studied at Bedford and married Abigail Williams. He was one of the first groups of missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS) to Madagascar in 1862 after the end of a long period of persecution. He was put in charge of one of the chief city churches in Antananarivo, which like other city churches, carried responsibility for a cluster of village churches in central Madagascar. In 1872 the five Protestant missions in the country decided to produce a new translation of the Bible, since growing missionary knowledge of the language had revealed many weaknesses in the first translation. Cousins was put in charge of the work, which was his chief occupation for 14 years. He was a strong advocate of missionary control over the admission of church members and over the appointment of all local pastors and preachers. At the same time, he tried to defend the church from control by the government, which assumed that the pre-Christian unity of state and religion would continue after national conversion to Christianity. He resigned from the mission in 1899 and was sent the following year as an LMS delegate to the Ecumenical Missionary Conference in New York. After a long period of retirement in England, he was killed in a street accident shortly before his ninety-ninth birthday. [5.en.https://dacb.org/stories/madagascar/cousins-william/]
Explanations in French	William Edward Cousins (1839-1938) Missionnaire anglais arrivé à Tananarive le 2 septembre 1862. Habile à s'assimiler la langue malgache, il fut bientôt mis à la tête des correcteurs de la Bible déjà traduite en malgache et dont une première édition avait paru le 21 juin 1835. Mais son principal mérite fut d'avoir recueilli et transcrit discours et coutumes autochtones dans des petits volumes intéressants et précieux: Ny Ohabolan' ny Ntaolo (1871, en collaboration avec J. Parrett), Malagasy Kabary (1873), Cousins sy Randzavola: Fomba Malagasy (1876). [1.11]
Literary works	A Concise Introduction to the Malagasy Language: being pages xiv to lix of A New Malagasy-English Dictionary Fomba Malagasy 1931 Introduction to the Malagasy Language: A concise Introduction to the Malagasy Language as spoken in Imerina Malagasy Kabary: from the time of Andrianampoinimerina 1873 Ny Ohabolan' ny Ntaolo 1885