"Gedenkstein Georg Schmidt" ("Memorial stone Georg Schmidt"). In the center a rock with a memorial plaque. The name Georg Schmidt can be read on the plaque, the further writing is not decipherable. In the background trees, behind the trees a building or wall. Georg Schmidt (1709-1785), born in Kunewalde, was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa from 1737-1744. He served in Söte Mecks Valley and Sergeant Revier (Baviaanskloof, i.e. Genadendal). In 1744 he went back to Europe and two years later he married Maria Wahovsky[?] in Herrnhaag. He died in Niesky, Germany. -- The memorial stone was inaugurated on the 9th of July in 1937.
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2 copies photographic prints, 8.9 x 6.4 cm. photographs
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