Sherwood Eddy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sherwood Eddy

American missionary and writer

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1871

Place of Birth: Leavenworth, Kansas, United States

Date of Death: 04-Nov-1963

Profession: writer, missionary

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sherwood Eddy (1871–1963) was a leading American Protestant missionary, administrator and educator.
He was a prolific author and indefatigable traveler.
His main achievement was to link and finance networks of intellectuals across the globe, especially Christian leaders in Asia and the Middle East.
He enabled missionaries to better understand and even think like the people they were serving.
His long-term impact on the Protestant communities in the United States, and in the Third World, was long lasting.
From the 1930s onwards, he became a Christian socialist.