Rudolf Christian Friedrich Lechler (Chinese: 黎力基) (26 July 1824 – 29 March 1908), was a German evangelical Christian missionary to China, and is one of early leaders of the Basel Mission evangelizing to the Hakka people. Lechler spent 52 years in China. The Basel Hakka Mission that he administered was responsible for establishing over 51 mission stations, 56 schools with over two thousand members.[1]
Lechler is known today for administering to the early Hakka Christian church and, together with his mission coworkers, facilitated in the resettling of Hakka Christian communities fleeing from persecution to Southeast Asian countries of which new congregations such as the Basel Christian Church of Malaysia and the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore were subsequently formed. Lechler appreciated China's cultural heritage and was able to preach in several varieties of Chinese, including Mandarin, Hokkien, and Hakka, the last of which he knew well enough to help prepare a Romanized Hakka edition of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke.[2] Today the Hakka Christian community is estimated to have 150,000 members worldwide.[3]
^C.J. Voskamp, "The Work of German Missions in China," in China Mission Yearbook, 1914, pp. 373–76.
^Early Hakka corpora held by the Basel Mission library: an introduction Biographical dictionary of Chinese Christianity, p. 73.
^Joshua Project: People-in-Country Profile - The Hakka
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