GUTZLAFF, KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1803 1851), German missionary to China, was born at Pyritz in Pomerania on July 8, 1803. After serving as a missionary in Java and Siam, he went to China, and there translated the Bible into Chinese, published a Chinese monthly magazine, and wrote in Chinese various books on subjects of useful knowledge. In 1834 he published a Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, '832 and 1833. He was appointed in 1835 joint Chinese secretary to the English commission, and during the opium war of 184o-42 and the negotiations connected with the peace his knowledge of the country and people made him ex tremely useful. Gaitzlaff in 1844 founded an institute for training native missionaries. He died at Hong Kong on Aug. 9, 1851.
Gutzlaff also wrote A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern (London, 1834), and a similar work published in German at Stuttgart in 1847 ; China Opened (1838) ; and the Life of Taow Kwang (1851; German edition published at Leipzig in 18p). There is a complete collection of his Chinese writings in the Munich library.