Historical records matching Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, SV/PROG
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About Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, SV/PROG
Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp
Variations of the name: None
Origin of the name: Dutch (Van der Kamp): topographic name for someone who lived by a field or a particular domain, from Middle Dutch kamp ‘field’, ‘domain’, or habitational name from der Kamp, a place in North Holland.
Birth date: 17 May 1747
Birth Place: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Arrival in South Africa: 31 March 1799 on board Sailing Vessel HILLBOROUGH
Date of Death: 15 December 1812
Place of Death: Cape Town, South Africa
Parents: Ds. Cornelius van der Kemp and Anna Maria van Teylingen
Marriage 1: Christina Helena Frank
Date: May 27, 1779
Place: Netherlands
Marriage 2: Sara Janse van de Kaap
Date: July 10, 1806
Place: Cape Town
Children:
Illegitimate:
Johanna (Antje) van der Kemp
Marriage 2:
Cornelis Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp
Didericus van der Kemp
Africanus van der Kemp
Sara Theodora van der Kemp
Occupation & Career: Military officer, Doctor, and Philosopher, who eventually became a Missionary in South Africa.
Publications:
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_van_der_Kemp
http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/t-u-v/van-der-kem...
http://remembered.co.za/johannes-theodorus-van-der-kemp-27486
Bibliography
DIGITAL TEXTS
Carne, John. Lives of Eminent Missionaries. Vol. 2. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1833.
Thompson, Andrew. Great Missionaries: A Series of Biographies. London, New York: T. Nelson, 1870.
Van der Kemp, Johannes T. The Christian Entirely the Property of Christ, in Life and Death: Exhibited in Fifty-three Sermons on the Heidelberg Catechism. Wherein the Doctrine of Faith, Received in the Reformed Church, is Defended Against the Principal Opponents, and the Practical Improvement and Direction of it to Evangelical Piety, Enforced. Vol. 1. New-Brunswick, NJ: Printed by Abraham Blauvelt, 1810.
The Christian Entirely the Property of Christ. Volume 2. New-Brunswick, NJ: Printed by Abraham Blauvelt, 1810.
PRIMARY
Van der Kemp, Johannes T. Extracts from the Journals of Dr. Vanderkemp and Mr. Read after their Settlement at Bota’s Place. London: Williams, 1804.
Memoirs of the Rev. J. T. Van der Kemp, M.D., Late Missionary in South Africa. London: J. Dennett for the London Missionary Society, etc., 1813.
Principles of the Word of God for the Hottentot Mission. 1804.
“Religion, Customs, Population, Language, History and Natural Productions of the Country.” In Transactions of the Missionary Society. Vol. 1 (1800): 432-68.
Specimen and Vocabulary of the Caffra Language. [London: LMS, 1804?].
SECONDARY
Brightwell, C.L. Dr. Vanderkemp: The Friend of the Hottentot. London: LMS, 1874.
Enklaar, I. H. Life and Work of Dr. J. Th. Van der Kemp, 1747-1811: Missionary Pioneer and Protagonist of Racial Equality in South Africa. 1988.
Martin, Arthur Davis. Dr. Vanderkemp. Westminister: Livingstone Press, 1931.
Northcutt, William Cecil. Hero of the Hottentots: John Vanderkemp. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1939.
Smith, G. John Vanderkemp: 1748-1811: The First Medical Missionary to Africa. London: Nelson, 1900.
Smith, Lucius E. Heros and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise: A Record of Their Lives and Labors. Providence, RI: Potter, [1856].
After a brief army career in his native Netherlands he took a medical degree in Scotland (1782). He joined the newly formed London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1798. One of the first three agents sent by the LMS to South Africa, he was the first missionary to work among the Xhosa (1799-1800). He became interested in the economic plight of the Khoikhoi ('Hottentot') people in the Cape Colony and strongly advocated granting then legal equality with whites. He laboured alternately among the Khoikhoi of the eastern Cape and the slave population of Cape Town. Partly as a matter of principle he married a non-white woman and thereby alienated the white settlers against his work. Armed with a background in European and classical philology, he pioneered in the study of Xhosa and Khoikhoi languages. He was made the first superintendent of the LMS's South African missions shortly before he died.
Established Bethelsdorp. Port Elizabeth’s first organised settlement.
Bethelsdorp Village was established in 1803 by Dr Johannes Theodorus Van Der Kemp, a missionary working among the Khoikhoi. Many of the old buildings in Bethelsdorp Village are protected by the National Monuments Act. The Van Der Kemps Memorial Church in the village was first built in 1803 and is generally regarded as the first Congregational church in southern Africa. It was destroyed by fire in 1890, rebuilt in 1903 and again in 1926 and extended in 1985. Behind the church is the so-called Livingston Cottage, used by visitors to the village. According to the legend, Dr David Livingstone also stayed there. In front of the church is the Market Square with the Mission Bell, erected in 1815 and in the street next to it visitors will see the Almshouse built in 1822 to accommodate the destitute.
He campaigned outspokenly against the labour practices of the Boers. By his death in 1811 he had baptised more than 100 Khoisan, but had also established a pattern of tension between the LMS and white settlers that would last for a century.
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Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, SV/PROG's Timeline
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May 17, 1747
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Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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June 7, 1747
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Rotterdam, Government of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
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1807
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1808
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December 20, 1810
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Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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December 15, 1812
Age 65
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Cape Town, South Africa
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