霍勒斯·牛顿·艾伦(),韓語漢字名安連(,)是一位美国传教士、医生、美国驻韩国大使。他是第一位进入韩国的更正教传教士,于1884年9月15日抵达韩国。
艾伦治愈了在甲申政變中受伤的閔妃的姪兒閔泳翊,此后得以接近朝鮮高宗国王,在他的建议下,创办了第一所西医院濟眾院(今延世大学医院),由艾伦负责。一年后,艾伦开办韩国第一所正式医学院。
由于艾伦与国王和官员的密切关系,于1890年出任使馆秘書,1897年升为总领事。但是,由于与美国政府对于《桂太郎-塔夫脱密约》产生分歧,在1905年被召回。
参考
- [http://chi.lcms.org/history/tih0423.htm Today in History – April 23] at chi.lcms.org
- Horace Newton Allen (1908), [https://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01139077&id=ItkMAAAAIAAJ Things Korean: A Collection of Sketches and Anecdotes, Missionary and Diplomatic]
- Horace Newton Allen (1889), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DgeQVx0KS_sC&pg=PA1&dq=inauthor:Horace+inauthor:Allen&as_brr=1#PPP11,M1 Korean Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Translated from the Korean Folk Lore]
- Horace Newton Allen (1901), [https://books.google.com/books?id=u8sNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PT6&dq=inauthor:Horace+inauthor:Allen&as_brr=1#PPT6,M1 A Chronological Index: Some of the Chief Events in the Foreign Intercourse of Korea]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815180258/http://www.history.pcusa.org/resources/heritage_sunday/2002/part1.cfm The first Presbyterian missionaries in Korea]
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