Philip Delaporte
Reverend Philip Adam Delaporte was a German born American Protestant missionary who translated numerous texts from German into Nauruan. Delaporte was sent to Nauru with his family in November 1899, and returned to America in 1917.
Read more about Philip Delaporte: Missionary, German-Nauran Dictionary
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