About Geart Aeilco Wumkes
Lived 1869 – 1954 (aged 84). Geart Aeilco Wumkes was a Dutch theologian, writer, translator, bible translator, librarian and historian.
Geart Aeilco Wumkes or G.A. Wumkies (4 September 1869, Joure – 7 May 1954, Huizum) was a Protestant West Frisian language Bible translator, historian, and preacher of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Major work His major work was the translation of the Bible into West Frisian, with the New Testament (West Frisian: Nije Testamint) being published in 1933 and the Old Testament (West Frisian: Alde Testamint) in 1943. The Old Testament was completed with the help of E. B. Folkertsma. The complete Bible (West Frisian: Bibel) was published in 1943.
Other translations In 1953 he translated John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress into West Frisian: De Pylgerreize.
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Dutch theologian
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Geart Aeilco Wumkes was born on 4 September 1869 in Joure.
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Geart Aeilco Wumkes died on 7 May 1954 in Leeuwarden.
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Geart Aeilco Wumkes was a theologian, writer, translator, bible translator, librarian and historian.
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Geart Aeilco Wumkes was Dutch.
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