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Title
Group portrait of missionaries in Mbozi, Tanzania, ca.1927-1929
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1927/1929
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Mbozi: Br. Giersch, Geschw. Tietzen u. Fräulein Zieglasch. Erhalten von Br. Giersch 1929." ("Mbozi: Br[other] Giersch, Br[other] Tietzen and S[ister] Tietzen, Miss Zieglasch. Received from Br[other] Giersch 1929."). The group sits around a table laid for afternoon coffee. The missionaries are named from the left to the right.
Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic prints, 11.2 x 8.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m3664 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06667
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3664
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06667.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Housing
Group portraits
Time Period
1927/1929
Place
Africa
Mbozi
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 2
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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