Image / Portrait of Otto Emil Birkeli, Madagascar, ca.1900

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Title: Portrait of Otto Emil Birkeli, Madagascar, ca.1900
Creator: L. Forbech, Christiania, Norway
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1900
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: Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
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Description: Otto Emil Birkeli was a missionary in Madagascar from 1903-1919. He attended The School of Mission and Theology 1897-1902. From 1923-1944 he was a teacher at The School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway. From 1937 he was the principal of this school. In Morondava, Madagascar on June 30, 1905 he married Olene, maiden name Soeiland. She was born in Stavanger, Norway on May 26, 1870 and died in 1962.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 10.4 x 6.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m4127 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-10681-732
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4127
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-10681-732.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Fashion
Norwegian Missionary Society
Birkeli, Otto Emil, 1877-1952
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/Tvn10681/732 [File]

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