Alois Kayser
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. • Illustration — Cenotaph 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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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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Chuuk.
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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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