Sierk Coolsma (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsiːr(ə) ˈkoːlsmaː]; 26 January 1840 – 20 March 1926) was a Dutch Protestant missionary who wrote extensively on...

of Dutch Reformed ministers, and the granddaughter of the missionary Sierk Coolsma, most of her fiction was on Christian topics. Some books were set in...

Lie Kim Hok and Phoa Keng Hek Sia, both of whom had been educated at Sierk Coolsma's missionary school in the Dutch East Indies. At first its mission was...

romantic author Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), knighted painter Sierk Coolsma (1840–1926), missionary and writer George Arnold Escher (1843–1939)...

as pantun (a form of poetry) and was fond of creating his own. When Sierk Coolsma opened a missionary school in Buitenzorg on 31 May 1869, Lie was in...

earliest formal education was in a school run by ethnic Chinese, but after Sierk Coolsma opened a missionary school in Bogor on 31 May 1869, Phoa was in the...

1877, the whole New Testament was finished by Sierk Coolsma, and followed by the whole Bible in 1891. Coolsma also published some books of the NT in Arabic...

indigenous population. They were not alone; Protestant missionaries such as Sierk Coolsma of the Netherlands Missionary Union and Mattheus Teffer of the Netherlands...

inspired Lie was translated in 1873 by Lie's teacher, Sierk Coolsma. According to Tio, Coolsma had based his translation off a stage performance and written...