1. Claudius Buchanan FRSE was a Scottish theologian, an ordained minister of the Church of England, and an evangelical missionary for the Church Missionary Society.
16 Facts About Claudius Buchanan
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Claudius Buchanan served as Vice Provost of the College of Calcutta in India.
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Claudius Buchanan was educated at the University of Glasgow and the Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Claudius Buchanan was ordained in 1795 by the Bishop of London.
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Claudius Buchanan actively supported Buchanan, attending meetings with senior church leaders as well as facilitating audiences with the Rajah of Travancore to secure his approval too.
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Claudius Buchanan asked Macaulay to undertake the task of supervising the translators.
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In January 1806, Claudius Buchanan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Claudius Buchanan was created an honorary Doctor of Divinity by Cambridge University.
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Claudius Buchanan is buried, along with his wife Mary and two infant children, in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Little Ouseburn, North Yorkshire.
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Claudius Buchanan was influential in introducing the Jagannath tradition and Hinduism to Western audiences in the early 19th-century.
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Claudius Buchanan called Jagannath "Juggernaut" and Hindu "Hindoo" in the letters he wrote from India.
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Claudius Buchanan's writings formed the "first images of Indian religions" to the evangelical audience in the early 19th century and were promoted by American magazines such as The Panoplist.
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Claudius Buchanan's pamphlets moved Christian missionaries and triggered a bitter debate between them and officials of the East India Company.
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Claudius Buchanan's writings led to many emotional sermons and mission advocates lectured on the need to "combat immorality and convert the unsaved" Indians.
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Claudius Buchanan's main work was an account of his travels in the south and west of India and called Christian Researches in Asia.
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Shortly before publication, in December 1810 Claudius Buchanan had asked Colin Macaulay to revise any parts of the manuscript he thought appropriate.