"Eröffnungsgebet von den schwarzen Pfarrer Clerk. "
Item Details
Title:
"Eröffnungsgebet von den schwarzen Pfarrer Clerk. "
Alternate title:
"The opening prayer spoken by the African pastor Clerk."
Description
Names
Dates
Date early:
20.10.1928
Proper date:
20.10.1928
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Africa {continent}: Ghana {modern state}: Ghana {traditional states}: Akwapim {traditional state}: Aburi {place}: Aburi-Akropong {mission district}: Akropong {place}
People:
Subject
Keywords:
concrete, event, communication, group, inauguration, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, seminary
Individuals:
Bellon, Immanuel (Mr)Name: Bellon, Immanuel (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1424
Date of Birth: 09.05.1875
Date of Death: 22.05.1956
Biography: From 1918 to 1922 Bellon worked as a assistant pastor in several churches in Southern Germany. He was in Ghana again from 1926 to 1934. - NB married twice, to Agnes Knapp and Magdalena Roser.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Zwar-Bellon, Martha (Mrs), Tochter/Sohn von: Bellon, Christian Friedrich (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Clerk, Nicholas Timothy (Mr)Name: Clerk, Nicholas Timothy (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1183
Date of Birth: 28.10.1862
Date of Death: 16.08.1961
Biography: One of the two Africans to complete the Basel Mission's training as missionary in Basel in the 19th century. Portrait ref. no. QS-30.001.0820 gives as first name "Nikolaus". Clerk stayed with Christaller in Schorndorf in 1884-5.
Profession: student in the preachers' college Akropong and in the Mission College in Basel.
Geographic references: Land of origin: Ghana {country of origin}, Mission area: Ghana {mission area}, Mission area: Togo {mission area}
Relationships: Tochter/Sohn von: Clerk, Alexander Worthy (Mr)
Need more information?, Wilkie (Mr)
Relationships
Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 5.8cm x 8.3cm
[Condition]: good
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.012.0066
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.012.0066
Title: "Eröffnungsgebet von den schwarzen Pfarrer Clerk. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 20.10.1928

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