"Kamerun/Cameroon 1897"
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"Kamerun/Cameroon 1897"
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Index mit Inhaltsangaben und Akten 1-270a/ index with table of contents and reports 1-270; Diverse Akten betreffend der Kamerun-Mission (1-14): Freiherr von Soden, Jakob Keller, Friedrich Autenrieth, Dr. von Jacobi, deutsche Kolonialabteilung; Ausschuss Kamerun, diverse Korrespondenz Akten 15-108; Station Bethel/Bonaku, Index und Akten 109-121: Martin Göhring, Gottlieb Spellenberg; Otto Schkölziger, Willhelm Hies, Ferdinand Ernst, Arnold Scholten, Wilhelm Dietrich, Heinrich Bohner, Karl Eugen Schuler; Station Bonaberi, Index und Akten 122-144: Heinrich Bohner, Eugen Hartenstein, Nathanael Lauffer, Friedrich Lutz, Wlhelm Hies, Martin Nusser, Arnold Scholten, Karl Eugen Schuler, Ferdinand Ernst, Ph. Häcklinger, Wilhelm Schmid, Jakob Gutekunst; Station Bombe:Index und Akten 145-165; Heinrich Bohner, Nathanael Lauffer, Arnold Scholten, Eugen Hartenstein,Wilhelm Hies, Karl Stolz; Station Mangamba, Index und Akten 166-179, Heinrich Bohner, Eugen Hartenstein, Arnold Scholten, Karl Wittwer, Heinrich Dorsch, Ferdinand Kobe, Chapuis François, Jakob Keller; Station Nyasoso Index und Akten 180-202: Heinrich Dorsch, Wilhelm Basedow, Heinrich Bohner, Wilhelm Hies, Arnold Scholten; Station Lobethal, Index und Akten 203-215: Arnold Scholten, David Hermann, Bartholomäus Gantenbein, Arnold Scholten, Heinrich Bohner, Wilhelm Hies, Georg Schürle; Station Edie, Index und Akten 216-238: David Hermann, Arnold Scholten, Gottlob Walker, Carl Hüttinger, Heinrich Dorsch, Gantenbein, Heinrich Bohner, Kaiserlicher Regierungs-Arzt, Willhelm Dietrich, Karl Schuler, Wilhelm Hies; Station Viktoria, Index und Akten 239-264: Gotthilf Gonser, Wilhelm Hies, Heinrich Bohner, Arnold Scholten, Georg Bizer, Gottlieb Spellenberg, Carl Hüttinger, Station Buea: Index und Akten 265-270a: Georg Bizer, Heinrich Bohner, Wilhelm Dietrich, Arnold Scholten, Karl Schuler, Otto Schkölziger Die folgenden Pläne sind in den Akten, da mit Berichten verklebt: Akte 177:Bleistiftskizze, Situationsplan der Station Mangamba von Karl Wittwer Akte 182: Bleistiftskizze eines Archiv-Kasten Station Nyasoso Akte 189: Plan Missionsstation Nyasoso betreffend Abänderungen am Plan von Carl Hüttinger (Dokument 139) von Carl Hüttinger Akte 228b: Plan zu einem Nebengebäude für Edea, Bleistiftskizze, 1897 270 documents and divided into 11 sections, including sections for the new stations at Edea and Bombe. Diverse Akten betreffend Kamerun - miscellaneous documents concerning Cameroon, Documents 1-14; Mainly correspondence with Government officials on the liquor auestion: permission to send a missionary doctor to Cameroon; acquisition of land in Buea: and Problems with the Roman Catholic missionaries in Sanaga; No. 8: a one-page printed leaflet with regulations concerning birth and marriage registers for indigenous Christians, also concerned with the Position of women; Ausschuss der Kamerun-Mission: letters and reports from the Mission's Local Executive Committee and its members, Documents 15-108; No. 19: draft curriculum for use in the Mission's Secondary Schools. See also Nos. 30 and 31-No. 39: Minutes of the Missionaries' General Conference where, inter alia the founding of a girls' school and the Coming of a mission doctor are discussed; No. 60: Printed booklet ("Lehrplan für die Mittel- und Gehilfenschule in Kamerun", 29 pages) with the Basel Mission curriculum for secondary schools. Nos 64-108: documents discussing disagreements among the missionaries in Cameroon, along with a circular letter from the Inspector in Basel addressed to them all; Bethel: letters and reports from the Station at Bethel (Bonaku), Documents 109 - 121; No. 113a: envelope containing drawings of a projected Workshop in Bonaku; No. 114: report by Göhring on a journey to the Elungasi area; Bonaberi: letters and reports from the Station at Bonaberi, Documents 122-144; No. 129: Nusser describes the people with whom he is working (Einige Charakterzüge unserer Leute); Bombe: letters and reports from the Station at Bombe, Documents 145-156; No. 152: Lauffer mentions a Conference between the missionaries and three Chiefs; No. 160: Lauffer on the conversion of people in Mukonva; Mangamba: letters and reports from the Station in Mangamba, Documents 166-179; No. 168: Wittwer reports a case of witchdraft, where, allegedly, 19 innocent people were killed, and the matter was brought before a colonial court; No. 177: sketch map of the Mangamba Station; Nyasoso: letters and reports from the Station at Nyasoso, Documents 180-202; No. 188: building Plans for the Station in Nyasoso. (Another plan can be found unnumbered, but bound between documents 193 and 194); No. 200: Dorsch writes of his experiences with the Nyasoso people; Lobethal: letters and reports from the Station at Lobethal, Documents 203-215; No. 212: In his annual Report Scholten mentions trouble with the Losango-men and the Catholics; No. 213: Annual Report of the Boys' School with (No. 214) a copy of the timetable; Edea: letters and reports from the Station at Edea, Documents 216-238; Nos. 216-237 concern additional buildings at Edea; No. 238: the first Annual Report from Edea. It relates Lutz' first experiences with the people in the region around Edea; Victoria: letters and reports from the Station at Victoria, Documents 239-264; No. 246: Bizer and Gonser on a journey from Cameroon Mountain to Lake Richard; No. 249: Gonser on the baptism of a polygamist and his 8 children; Nos. 254 and 256: the missionaries request permission to open a shop in Victoria. The building Plans are at No. 256a; No. 264: on the Catholic mission in this area; Buea: letters and reports from the Station at Buea, Documents 265-270; No. 268: report by Bizer to the "Akademischer Missionsverein Tübingen" (a Student group in Tübingen interested in Mission) on his work and the Mission's Boys' Boarding School in Buea; No. 270: Annual Report mentioning the expropriation of land and its consequences for the people
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Title: "Kamerun/Cameroon 1897"
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Date: 1897
“Kamerun/Cameroon 1897,” BMArchives, accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/16016.
Title: "Kamerun/Cameroon 1897"
Creator: unknown
Date: 1897
“Kamerun/Cameroon 1897,” BMArchives, accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/16016.
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