"Spitze vom Festzug, Miss. Bellon & Kurtz. "
Item Details
Title:
"Spitze vom Festzug, Miss. Bellon & Kurtz. "
Alternate title:
"At the head of the procession, the missionaries Bellon and Kurtz."
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:
event, communication, group, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, missionary m, sun helmet
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?, Kurtz, Heinrich (Mr)Name: Kurtz, Heinrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1283
Date of Birth: 02.06.1870
Date of Death: 04.01.1947
Biography: Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission from 1903 to 1933. NB Kurtz' wife Line Kurtz-Hesse was a cousing of Johannes Hesse (in this database). His son Robert, a pastor in Zürich, was the BM's "Secretary for Switzerland & Germany 1946-56.
Profession: secondary school pupil (Realschüler)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
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Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 7.6cm x 5.5cm
[Condition]: good
[Process]: print, letterpress halftone (HD)
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.012.0194
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.012.0194
Title: "Spitze vom Festzug, Miss. Bellon & Kurtz. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 20.10.1928

“Spitze vom Festzug, Miss. Bellon & Kurtz. ,” BMArchives, accessed May 18, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/70315.
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