Samuel H. Moffett

Samuel Hugh Moffett (April 7, 1916 – February 9, 2015) (Korean: 마삼락(馬三樂) 또는 마포삼락(馬布三樂),[1] Chinese: 莫菲特) was an American Christian missionary and academic who latterly served as professor emeritus at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

[5] He was raised on the Korean Peninsula while his parents were serving as missionaries in Pyongyang (now the capital of North Korea) when he was born in 1916.

[7] In 1955, he and his new wife Eileen moved to South Korea to work as missionaries, beginning in the rural area of Andong.

[6] He remained a professor and dean of the graduate school with Princeton, and became the co-president of the Korean Presbyterian Seminary.

Following that, he returned to the campus of his alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, as Henry Winters Luce Professor of Ecumenics and Mission from 1981–1987.