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Title
Brother Baudert and Elias Mzuku, South Africa East
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, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
„Br. Baudert und Elias Mzuku“ („Br[other] Baudert and Elias Mzuku“). Elias Mzuku and Brother Baudert standing next to a hut, wearing suits and hats. Baudert is holding a jacket in his left hand. A bit behind on the left side of the picture another man in a suit, not fully visible. Plants and a hill in the background.
Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Brethren from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop.--Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.--Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
8.1 x 5.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m57924 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-4-08503
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57924
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-4-08503.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Christians
Group portraits
Place
Africa
South Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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