"Br. Hennig, Zickmantel, Jansa auf Eseln" ("Br[other] Hennig, Zickmantel, Jansa on donkeys"). Missionaries Hennig, Zickmantel and Jansa on mules next to each other, accompanied by Africans, who are standing on the left, and two dogs next to Brother Jansa. They are surrounded by shrubbery. Photo is yellowed. -- The picture was probably taken during Missionary Hennig's trip to East Africa in 1905/06. -- Paul Otto Hennig (1857-1928) became a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in South Africa after he had married Elsbeth Gemuseus in 1891. There he serves as head of the church assembly, superintendent and also as chairman of the German mission directorate from 1906 onwards. He visited East Africa in 1905/06. -- Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania. -- Ferdinand Jansa (1868-1957) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Ipanya from December 1899 to 1901, 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, in Mbozi 1901, in Kyimbila 1902 and from 1912 to 1916 and in Mwaya from 1907 to 1909. After the First World War he continued his service in Nyasa Province from May 1926 to Mai 1934. He married Caroline, née Jung (1873 - 1944), in 1899.
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2 copies, colored slide no. 3928 photographic prints, 8.2 x 7.3 cm. photographs
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