Edwin William Smith

Edwin William Smith (* 7. September 1876 in Aliwal North, Südafrika; † 23. Dezember 1957 in Deal, England) war ein britischer Militär-Geistlicher der Methodisten, Missionar, Ethnologe, Linguist, Historiker und Afrikanist. Er verfasste ein Handbuch der Ila-Sprache (Seshukulumbwe) und erforschte zusammen mit Andrew Murray Dale die ilasprachige Bevölkerung von Nordrhodesien (heute: Sambia), seinem Wirkungsgebiet als Missionar. Smith war der Haupt-Übersetzer der Bibel in die Ila-Sprache. Er war Mitglied des Königlichen Anthropologischen Instituts.

Hauptwerk

Edwin William Smith und Andrew Murray Dale: The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. 2 Bände. London: Macmillan, 1920 (Digitalisat: I, II)

A Handbook of the Ila language [commonly called the Seshukulumbwe] spoken in North-Western Rhodesia, South-Central Africa : comprising grammar, exercises, specimens of Ila tales, and vocabularies. Republ. Oxford 1907. Ridegewood, N.J.: Gregg, 1907
The Christian mission in Africa. The International Missionary, 1926
Aggrey of Africa. Ayer Co Pub , 1929
The Mabilles of Basutoland. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939
The secret of the African. United Society for Christian, 1943 (Seven lectures delivered as "Long lectures" in 1927–28, at the invitation of the Church Missionary Society.)
African beliefs and Christian faith. United Society for Christian, 1943
Knowing the African. United Society for Christian, 1946
The life and times of Daniel Lindley 1801–80. The Epworth Press 1949
Smith, E. W. und E. G. Parrinder (Hrsg.): African Ideas of God. London: Edinburgh House Press 1966. 3. ed. (zuerst 1950)
The Blessed Missionaries: Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures delivered in Cape Town in 1949; with foreword by Sir Herbert Stanl. Kapstadt: Oxford U.P., 1950
Great Lion of Bechuanaland: the Life and Times of Roger Price, Missionary and Statesman, London 1957

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