Geart Aeilco Wumkes
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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
[edit]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
[edit]In 1953 he translated John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress into West Frisian: De Pylgerreize.
External links
[edit]- Wumkes.nl mei ûnder oaren de Stads- en Dorpskroniek (West Frisian) Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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