"Gold Coast Missionaries Assembled at Basle in Anniversary week 1910. "
Item Details
Title:
"Gold Coast Missionaries Assembled at Basle in Anniversary week 1910. "
Alternate title:
"Gold Coast Missionaries assembled in Basel in the Annivesary Week 1910."
Description
Names
Dates
Date early:
1910
Proper date:
1910
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Europe {continent}: Switzerland {modern state}: Basel-Stadt {region}: Basel {place}
[Geography]: Europe {continent}: Switzerland {modern state}: Basel-Stadt {region}: Basel {place}: Mission House premises and garden {other geogr names}
People:
Subject
Keywords:
communication, group, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, missionary f, missionary m, woman, women's wear
Individuals:
Brugger, Hanna (Ms)Name: Brugger, Hanna (Ms)
Basel mission membership number: SV 0032
Date of Birth: 13.07.1861
Date of Death: 29.03.1927
Biography: Her name was also spelt 'Brucker'. (PST).
Profession: teacher (Lehrerin)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Brugger, Traugott (Mr), Tochter/Sohn von: [leer] N
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Deyhle, Adolf (Mr)Name: Deyhle, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1601
Date of Birth: 05.06.1877
Date of Death: 09.02.1920
Biography: Worked in the mission administration in Basel from 1908 to 1920.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Dillenz, Otto (Mr)Name: Dillenz, Otto (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1810
Date of Birth: 06.07.1885
Date of Death: 29.11.1968
Biography: Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft / Basel Mission Trading Company.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Duisberg, August Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Duisberg, August Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1201
Date of Birth: 06.08.1837
Date of Death: 23.07.1916
Biography: Basel Mission Trading Company. Duisberg had been a missionary for the Pilgrim Mission in Khartum from 1864 to 1870. Before he entered the BM he had also worked in Jerusalem. After his return from Ghana D. was in the BM administration until 1916.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Duisberg-von Jaminet, Amalie (Mrs)
Need more information?, Erhardt-Erhardt, Anna (Mrs)Name: Erhardt-Erhardt, Anna (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 25.03.1882
Date of Death: 20.07.1946
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Erhardt, Wilhelm (Mr)
Need more information?, Fischer, Joh. Friedrich (Mr)Name: Fischer, Joh. Friedrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1373
Date of Birth: 18.05.1872
Date of Death: 22.01.1933
Biography: Travelling agent for the Basel Mission from 1906 to 1915. During the war Fischer worked for prisoners of war in Russia and Switzerland. Second wife (wedding 1903) Lydia F-Werner.
Profession: shoemaker (Schuhmacher)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Fischer-Pfister, Susanna Anna (Mrs)
Need more information?, Furrer-Egli, Elisabetha (Mrs)Name: Furrer-Egli, Elisabetha (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 10.06.1855
Date of Death: 02.04.1888
Biography: First wife of R. Furrer.
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Furrer, Rudolf (Mr)
Need more information?, Götz-Beer, Luise (Mrs)Name: Götz-Beer, Luise (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 23.04.1873
Date of Death: 29.06.1959
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Götz, Johannes (Mr)
Need more information?, Gsell, Ludwig Albert (Mr)Name: Gsell, Ludwig Albert (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1387
Date of Birth: 31.07.1874
Date of Death: 19.04.1954
Biography: After his return from Ghana Gsell was a Basel Mission travelling secretary from 1908 to 1917 and a pastor from 1917 to 1934.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Gsell-Zinsstag, Mary (Mrs)
Need more information?, Hirsmüller, Carl (Mr)Name: Hirsmüller, Carl (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1120
Date of Birth: 13.07.1859
Date of Death: 20.08.1911
Biography: After his return from Ghana Hirsmüller was a photographer in Emmendingen.
Profession: photographer (Photograph)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Hirsmüller-Wettstein, Emma (Mrs)
Need more information?, Hürlimann, Heinrich (Mr)Name: Hürlimann, Heinrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1026
Date of Birth: 06.01.1856
Date of Death: 10.02.1912
Biography: After his return from Ghana Hürlimann was a travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in the region of Zürich, Switzerland.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Hürlimann-Burkhardt, Anna (Mrs)
Need more information?, Lädrach-Rieder, Emma (Mrs)Name: Lädrach-Rieder, Emma (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 20.05.1875
Date of Death: 14.10.1968
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Lädrach, Otto (Mr)
Need more information?, Maue, Ludwig (Mr)Name: Maue, Ludwig (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1469
Date of Birth: 18.05.1874
Date of Death: 24.08.1943
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission and deputy pastor from 1918 to 1939.
Profession: wheelwright (Wagner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Maue-Trost, Luise (Mrs)Name: Maue-Trost, Luise (Mrs)
Basel mission membership number: SV 0057
Date of Birth: 29.03.1875
Date of Death: 15.05.1958
Biography: A.k.a. Trost, Luise.
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Maue, Ludwig (Mr)
Need more information?, Mohr, Adolf (Mr)Name: Mohr, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0849
Date of Birth: 20.01.1851
Date of Death: 27.01.1927
Biography: From 1906 to 1922 Mohr was an editor of mission publications (Missionsliterat) in several German cities.
Profession: mechanic (Mechanicus)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Mohr, Joseph Franz (Mr)
Need more information?, Munz, Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Munz, Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0940
Date of Birth: 30.03.1854
Date of Death: 21.08.1930
Biography: After his return from Cameroon Munz was an inspector for the German evangelical society (1891-1907). In 1907 he was a city missioner in Stuttgart, Germany.
Profession: locksmith (Schlosser)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}, Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Oechsler, Bertha (Ms)Name: Oechsler, Bertha (Ms)
Basel mission membership number: SV 0092
Date of Birth: 07.11.1882
Date of Death: 05.06.1946
Biography: A.k.a. Huppenbauer-Oechsler, Berta Katharina (Mrs).
Profession: deaconess (Diakonissin)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Rottmann, Wilhelm Jacob (Mr)Name: Rottmann, Wilhelm Jacob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1102
Date of Birth: 09.09.1859
Date of Death: 03.07.1917
Biography: From 1912 to 1916 Rottmann was a travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Germany.
Profession: teacher (Lehrer)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Rottmann, Gottlob Samuel (Mr), Tochter/Sohn von: Rottmann, Hermann Ludwig (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Schmid, Wilhelm Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Schmid, Wilhelm Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1189
Date of Birth: 23.03.1865
Date of Death: 07.11.1959
Biography: Schmid worked in Cameroon as a masterbuilder and he was in Ghana for the Basler Missions-Handelsgesellschaft / Basel Mission Trading Company.
Profession: carpenter (Schreiner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}, Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Schopf, Jakob Friedrich (Mr)Name: Schopf, Jakob Friedrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0975
Date of Birth: 10.10.1851
Date of Death: 28.09.1917
Biography: After 1900 Schopf was translating the Gâ language.
Profession: glazier (Glaser)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Schweizer, Karl Julius (Mr)Name: Schweizer, Karl Julius (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1250
Date of Birth: 28.11.1868
Date of Death: 21.02.1951
Biography: From 1904 to 1921 Schweizer was a publisher for mission publications in Twi and from 1921 until 1927 he was a teacher for Latin and Greek in the Mission Seminary in Basel.
Profession: mechanic (Mechaniker)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Steiner, Paul (Mr)Name: Steiner, Paul (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0778
Date of Birth: 03.02.1849
Date of Death: 23.01.1941
Biography: After returning from Ghana Steiner was the editor of the "Missions Magazin" (1890-1911).
Profession: private tutor (Privatlehrer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Weiss, Johann Jakob (Mr)Name: Weiss, Johann Jakob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0572
Date of Birth: 27.05.1839
Date of Death: 07.03.1924
Biography: After returning to Switzerland Weiss was an evangelist in Zürich.
Profession: taylor (Schneider)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Hirsmüller-Wettstein, Emma (Mrs)Name: Hirsmüller-Wettstein, Emma (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 17.12.1867
Date of Death: 09.10.1956
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Hirsmüller, Carl (Mr)
Need more information?, Hürlimann-Burkhardt, Anna (Mrs)Name: Hürlimann-Burkhardt, Anna (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 01.11.1863
Date of Death: 07.07.1934
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Hürlimann, Heinrich (Mr)
Need more information?, Aeppli-Plüss, Johanna (Mrs)Name: Aeppli-Plüss, Johanna (Mrs)
Basel mission membership number: SV 0018
Date of Birth: 12.01.1853
Date of Death: 11.08.1930
Biography: Head of the girls' boarding school in Aburi from 1883 to 1885.
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Aeppli, Heinrich (Mr)
Need more information?, Im Hof, Sophie (Ms)Name: Im Hof, Sophie (Ms)
parallel_name: Imhof, Sophie (Ms)
Basel mission membership number: SV 0041
Date of Birth: 20.09.1848
Date of Death: 30.08.1932
Profession: teacher
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Schall, Johanna Siona (Ms)Name: Schall, Johanna Siona (Ms)
Date of Birth: 17.06.1869
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Schall, Eberhard (Mr)
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Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 20.3cm x 25.4cm
[Condition]: medium
[Type of support]: cardboard
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.004.0026
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.004.0026
Title: "Gold Coast Missionaries Assembled at Basle in Anniversary week 1910. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 1910

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