Alois Kayser
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Alois Kayser (March 29, 1877 in Lupstein, Alsace – October 21, 1944 in Chuuk) was a German-French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan language dictionary). In 1943, he was deported along with , a Swiss missionary, as well as most of the Nauruan population, by the Japanese to Micronesia, where he died.
In his honour, the government of Nauru named the technical school in the district Ewa after him.
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- 1877 births
- 1944 deaths
- History of Nauru
- People from Alsace-Lorraine
- German Roman Catholic missionaries
- Roman Catholic missionaries in Nauru
- Translators to Nauruan
- People deported from Nauru
- German expatriates in Nauru
- Missionary linguists