Alois Kayser
Illustration — Cenotaph Alois Kayser (March 29, 1877 in Lupstein, Alsace – October 21, 1944 in Chuuk) was a German-French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan language dictionary). In 1943, he was deported along with Pierre Clivaz, a Swiss missionary, as well as most of the Nauruan population, by the Japanese to Truk Atoll in Micronesia, where he died. In his honour, the government of Nauru named the technical school in the district Ewa after him.
Alois Kayser
- Born
- 1877. · Lupstein.
- Died
- 1944. · Chuuk.
- Nationality
- France and German Reich.
- Occupation
- missionary, linguist and writer.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Cenotaph Alois Kayser (March 29, 1877 in Lupstein, Alsace – October 21, 1944 in Chuuk) was a German-French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan language dictionary). In 1943, he was deported along with Pierre Clivaz, a Swiss missionary, as well as most of the Nauruan population, by the Japanese to Truk Atoll in Micronesia, where he died. In his honour, the government of Nauru named the technical school in the district Ewa after him.
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The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are German New Guinea. Positions recorded include missionary.
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1877
Alois Kayser was born on 29 March 1877.
1944
Alois Kayser died on 21 October 1944.
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Lupstein.
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- 1.Lupstein - Etat civil - Registre de naissances 1877 - 4 E 275/9 vue 6/17.
- 2.Photo du mémorial érigé à Nauru en la mémoire d'Alois Kayser indiquant les dates et les lieux de sa naissance et de sa mort
- 3.John Garrett. Where nets were cast: Christianity in Oceania since World War II. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, World Council of Churches. 499. 1997. 9820201217.
- 4.Jemima Garrett. Island exiles. ABC books. 200. 1996. 0733304850.
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