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Title
100th anniversary of the mission, Leipzig, Germany, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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
Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., Paul-List-Str. 19, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig Mission
USC does not control copyright of the images you are interested in using, so you will need to directly contact the institutions who own the materials. For the publication or re-publication of any images originating from the Leipzig Mission, written permission must be obtained from: Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., Paul-List-Str. 19, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany; Tel. (0)341 / 99 40 600, Archive 99 40 633, Fax 99 40 690; e-mail: bildarchiv@lmw-mission.de--When requesting images please include the filename (usually begins with "IMP-LPZ").--The following charges are made for the right to publish an image: - for a publication with a circulation up to 500: 10 euros, - for a publication with a circulation of 501 to 1,000: 13 euros, - for a publication with a circulation of more than 1,000 or for use in electronic media, film, television or other audivisual media: 30 euros.--Commercial use of images requires special permission and will be priced individually. Copyright belongs to the Archive. Every image published must be directly accompanied by a credit line beginning "Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., ..."; together with the reference. Payment should be made by money transfer in euros to: Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., IBAN: DE37 3506 0190 1608 7000 10, BIC: GENODED1DKD, Bank für Kirche u. Diakonie.
bildarchiv@lmw-mission.de
Description
Photograph of the first missionaries in Africa at the 100th anniversary of the mission. They are standing outside in front of a monument[?], from left missionaries Althaus, Faßmann, E. Müller, Böhme.
Cf. picture no. LPZ/Negative box/115.
Emil Müller (1868-1940) was one of the founders of the missionary work of the Leipzig Mission in German East Africa. From 1893 to 1920 and from 1931 to 1933 he served the Leipzig Mission in Machame, a station founded in 1893. He is the author of a dictionary of the Chagga language published in 1947.
Gerhard Althaus (1866-1946), from Hannover, was one of the founders of the missionary work in German East Africa. He studied theology before serving the Leipzig Mission in Tanzania from 1893 to 1910. The station in Mamba was founded by him and missionary Päsler in 1894.
Robert Faßmann (1868-1942), from Saxony, was one of the founders of the missionary work in German East Africa. In 1893 he arrived in Machame. From 1896 to 1908 he worked in Kidia, the station Old Moshi which he founded together with Segebrock and von Lany.
Albin Böhme (1869-1949), from Saxony, was one of the founders of the missionary work in German East Africa. He arrived in Machame in 1893, but only a couple of months later he got diphtheria and had to return to Germany.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
8.0 x 5.9 cm.
photographs
photographic prints
Identifier
IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-04-1264.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84848
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-04-1264.jpg
Subject
Missionaries
Missions
Missionary work
Group portraits
Time Period
1936
Place
Europe
Germany
Leipzig
Source
LPZ/Album 4/1264 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Leipzig Mission, Germany, ca.1912-1917 & ca.1924-1938
impa-m59833

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