VERBECK, Guido Fridolin, a citizen of no country but honored in Holland, America and Japan; missionary, educator and statesman: b. at Zeist, in the province of Utrecht, 1 Feb. 1830; d. Tokio, 10 March 1898. He was edu cated in the languages and humanities in the Moravian Academy at Zeist, often hearing the returned missionaries, especially Gutzlaff of China. He prepared for the profession of engi neer in the School of Technology at Delft. Coming to America he was engaged as mechan ical engineer in Wisconsin and Arkansas (1852— 56), and entering the Theological Seminary in Auburn, N. Y., graduated in 1859, and as the ((Americanized Dutchman" needed for the mis sion of the Reformed Dutch Church in Amer ica, in japan, went out and settled at Nagasaki. The Japanese governtnent called him to educa tional work in 1863, and thenceforward for nearly 20 years he was in its service, training up many young men who afterward became the rulers of the nation. He organized the na
tional system of education, superintending the foreign teachers and instructors of the Imperial 'University in Tolcio, served as secretary to the Genro-in, or Senate, translating the constitu tions of European countries, the code Napoleon, Bluntschi's