Walter Asboe
| Revd. Walter Asboe | |||||
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| Born | 1895 | ||||
| Died | 1965 | ||||
| Residence | Moravian Museum, Kyeland, Kangra District, via Kulu (Punjab), India | ||||
| Occupation |
museum work church | ||||
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1930.12.16 It was resolved to appoint the following Local Correspondents: Revd. Walter Asboe, Moravian Mission for Kylang Thibet; Mr F. Louis Jones for San la Cruz, and Mr E.L. Gordon Thomas for New Guinea.
1936.02.25 The following were reappointed Local Correspondents, their appointment dating from 1936: ... Revd. Walter Asboe (Kangra District) ...
Notes From Elsewhere
minister in East Tytherton from 1948-1952
Walter Asboe, a Moravian Missionary who was in the area in the 1930s and 1940s. Asboe collected for H. G. Beasley and for his Cranmore Museum.
Walter Asboe came to Ladakh in 1939. He started a professional school at Leh, which gave training in handicrafts, notably weaving on new broader looms in Tibetan carpet weaving. Walter Asboe was also the principal organiser of the 'Gospel Inn' which opened in 1939 and catered to the many travellers who passed through Leh on account of the Central Asia trade ... he made a hobby of writing in his spare time. He published a series of articles about Ladakh in the Moravian Mission magazine as well as more academic papers in scholarly journals. [from Famous Western Expolorers to Ladakh By Prem Singh Jina]
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External Publications
He published a series of articles about Ladakh in the Moravian Mission magazine as well as more academic papers in scholarly journals.
House Publications
Social functions in Lahul Kangra District, Panjab 1933
96. The Scape-Goat in Western Tibet. Man
Vol. 36 (May, 1936), pp. 74-75
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