Joseph Schereschewsky
| Joseph Schereschewsky | |
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| Anglican Bishop of Shanghai | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Shanghai |
| In office | 1877-1884 |
| Predecessor | Channing M. Williams |
| Successor | William Jones Boone, Jr. |
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| Ordination | 28 October 1860 |
| Consecration | 31 October 1877 by Bosworth Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 May 1831 Tauroggen, Russian Lithuania |
| Died | 15 October 1906 Tokyo, Japan |
| Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 施約瑟 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shī Yuēsè |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Shy Iueseh |
| Wade–Giles | Shih Yüeh-se |
| Yale Romanization | Shr̄ Ywēsè |
| IPA | [ʂɻ̩́ y̯ésɤ̂] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Yih Yeuk Sàt |
| IPA | [jìːjœ̄ːk sɐ̂t] |
| Jyutping | Ji6 Joek3 Sat1 |
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky (pronounced skĕr-ĕs-kūs'kĭ Chinese: 施約瑟; 6 May 1831 – 15 October 1906), also known as Joseph Schereschewsky, was the Anglican Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1877 to 1884. He founded St. John's University, Shanghai, in 1879.
Schereschewsky was born in Tauroggen, Russian Lithuania, on 6 May 1831. He appears to have been named for his father. His mother was Rosa Salvatha. Orphaned as a young boy, it is speculated he was raised by a half-brother who was a timber merchant in good circumstance. Having shown himself to be a promising student, he was given the best education available and it was his family's intention that he become a rabbi. From the time he left his brother's house at 15, he was obliged to support himself as a tutor and as a glazier. It was at the rabbinical school in Zhitomir that he was given a copy of the New Testament in Hebrew which had been produced by the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. The study of that gradually convinced him that in Jesus the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and the age-long hopes of his people had been fulfilled. At 19 he went to Germany where he studied for a year or more at Frankfurt and for two years at the University of Breslau. To his fluency in Yiddish, Polish and Russian he added German, which he spoke like a native for the rest of his life.
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