Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Keithahn, Ralph Richard
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Keithahn, Ralph Richard, 1898-
Other form(s) of name
- Ralph R. Keithahn
- R. R. Keithahn
- Keithahn, R. R.
- Ralph Richard Keithahn
- Keithahn, Ralph R.
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1898-
History
Born in Minnesota, Ralph Keithahn began as a missionary and social worker in 1925. He was influenced by Gandhi and the movement for the Indian national movement. He later cut ties with the missionary societies of the United States, adopted traditional Indian garb, and lived in an ashram in South India. A contemporary of Bede Griffiths, he similarly drew on both Christian monasticism and the ashram tradition of India. He was a Benedictine oblate when he died. He writes to Merton from the Sarvodaya Ashram.