"Marschübung der Schüler der Höheren-Schule in Rungwe. Das Kirchgebäude. Br. Gemuseus." ("Students of the secondary school in Rungwe doing marching exercises. Church building. Br[other] Gemuseus."). Two lines of students marching with their hands on their hips to the left and to the right on a court in front of a thatched church building which is depicted only half. Missionary Gemuseus is standing in the center in front of them. Trees on the right-hand side. Imprinted on the image: "3250". Photo included from the box of duplicates. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874 - 1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936 "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950 "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953. -- Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
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image
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color slide no. 3250 photographic prints, 15.9 x 10.5 cm. photographs
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