“Evangelisationsversammlung vor einer Dorfhütte. Geschwister Löbner” (“Evangelization-meeting in front of a village hut. Siblings Löbner”). Group picture of approx. 30 persons: Brother (white suit, tropical hat) and Sister Löbner (white top, skirt and hat) standing in the middle, approx. 28 Africans standing and sitting around them (mostly small children wearing the same shirts), hut and fence in the background. Mads Hansen Löbner, born on September 26th, 1868 in Stenderup (Denmark), was a pastor. On April 2nd, 1902 he married Ane Marie Pedersen in Kopenhagen. From 1906-1914 he worked as a missionary in Unyamwezi, from 1906-08 he was stationed in Urambo. In 1908 he was substitute head of the synod. In 1910 he was head in Sikonge and became head of the synod of the Unyamwezi mission in the same year. From 1912 onwards he was in Tabora. In 1914 he was on vacation in Europe. He died in 1922 in Götterup (Denmark).--Ane Marie Löbner, née Pedersen, was a nursery. In 1902 she married Mads Hansen Löbner in Copenhagen. Her missionary work in Unyamwezi (East Africa) lasted from 1906 till 1914.
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