摘要
从1833年底至1857年初,卫三畏(Samuel Wells Williams)是美国传教团体美部会(American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions)广州印刷所的传教印工。在19世纪基督教在华传教士推动西式活字取代传统木刻的过程中,卫三畏也扮演了非常积极的角色。本文讨论他在这方面很有意义的几项活动:1.赞助伦敦传教会的戴尔(Samuel Dyer)募款铸造活字;2.促成柏林铸字工匠贝尔豪斯(Auguste Beyerhaus)动手铸造中文活字;3.借用并拥有英国东印度公司澳门印刷所原来制造的中文活字;4.撰写、编印及遗留大量关于西式中文活字的史料。
Between 1833 and 1857,Samuel Wells Williams was a missionary-printer in charge of the Canton Press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions(ABCFM).In the 19 th century,Christian missionaries in China had advocated replacing traditional block printing with Western movable types and Williams played a very active role in that process.Several aspects of Williams’significance in the process are discussed in the present paper:first,helping Samuel Dyer,a missionary of the London Missionary Society,in fundraising for making types;second,bringing about the actual production of a set of Chinese types initiated by Auguste Beyerhaus,a Berlin type-cutter;third,possessing and using a set of Chinese types originally produced by English East India Company Press in Macao;and fourth,writing,editing and leaving a large quantity of valuable materials on Western style Chinese movable types.
关键词
卫三畏
活字
中文活字
活字印刷
Samuel Wells Williams
movable type
Chinese movable type
typography
