"Baziya. Im Missionshof. Kranke warten auf Behandlung. Links vorn Heidin mit Kind, daneben andere Heidin (nur Kopf sichtbar) Dahinter Christen-Frau mit aus Gras gefertigten Seilen" ("Baziya. In the mission courtyard. Sick persons are waiting for treatment. On the left side in the front a female heathen with a child, beside another female heathen (only the head is visible) behind Christian woman with ropes made of grass"). Several people sitting in a meadow. Behind them a building with another person sitting next to it. In the background trees, a fence and other houses. c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-6-09506. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).
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