Background
He was born in Great Falls, Montana to Swedish immigrant parents and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Walla Walla University.
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Andrew Nelson
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The University of Washington awarded Nelson a Doctor of Philosophy in 1938 for his dissertation on The origin, history, and present status of the temples of Japan.
Career
After retiring from missionary work in 1961, he was preoccupied with placing the finishing touches on his masterpiece, The Modern Reader"s Japanese-English Character Dictionary, which first appeared in print the following year. The work, which was posthumously revised and expanded by a team led by John H. Haig at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was reissued in 1997 as The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. However, many scholars, teachers, and students continue to use the original edition of Nelson"s dictionary, which has remained in print, because of changes made in Haig"s edition that are viewed as impairing the functionality of the work.
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Nelson died in Hong Kong. Founded Mountain View College
Nelson describes the founding of Mountain View College in a report published in the March 17, 1953, Youth"s Instructor.
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