"Generalkonferenz Akropong 1913. "
Item Details
Title:
"Generalkonferenz Akropong 1913. "
Alternate title:
"Missionaries' General Conference Akropong 1913."
Description
Names
Dates
Date early:
1913
Proper date:
1913
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:
anniversary (25th), communication, conference, dishes, group, interior, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, missionary f, missionary m, table, tablecloth
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?, Haldemann, Ernst Heinrich (Mr)Name: Haldemann, Ernst Heinrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1817
Date of Birth: 01.12.1885
Date of Death: 10.01.1959
Profession: bookseller (Buchhändler)
Geographic references: Mission area: China {mission area}, Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Jehle, Gustav Arthur (Mr)Name: Jehle, Gustav Arthur (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1575
Date of Birth: 11.03.1874
Date of Death: 20.10.1957
Biography: Later: Assistant astor and administrator in the Protestant Church of Württemberg.
Profession: student of theology (cand. phil.)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Jehle-Maag, Johanna Elise (Mrs)
Need more information?, Kirchner, Adolf (Mr)Name: Kirchner, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1378
Date of Birth: 17.02.1873
Date of Death: 03.12.1939
Biography: Internment from 1914 to 1917.
Profession: glazier (Glaser)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Kölle, Christian (Mr)Name: Kölle, Christian (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1147
Date of Birth: 08.02.1864
Date of Death: 28.02.1936
Biography: From 1915 to 1931 Christian Kölle was a commercial-school teacher in Calw. After 1931he revised missionary Schopf's Gâ dictionary.
Profession: carpenter (Schreiner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Lipps, Adolf (Mr)Name: Lipps, Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1527
Date of Birth: 13.02.1878
Date of Death: 14.08.1941
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Deputy pastor in Württemberg after 1918. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't mention the year of his pension. Worked as monitor in Basel Mission.
Profession: case-maker (Etuisarbeiter)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Martin, Gottfried (Mr)Name: Martin, Gottfried (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1176
Date of Birth: 18.08.1866
Date of Death: 08.11.1949
Biography: After his return from Ghana Martin was a deputy pastor for the Protestant Church of Württemberg (1914-1922) and a Mission Preacher for the Basel Mission in Württemberg (1922-1936).
Profession: baker (Bäcker)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
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?, Nothwang, Erwin (Mr)Name: Nothwang, Erwin (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1445
Date of Birth: 16.07.1875
Date of Death: 16.12.1965
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Deputy pastor from 1918 to 1943.
Profession: typesetter (Schriftsetzer)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Nothwang, Emil (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Stern, Karl Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Stern, Karl Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1447
Date of Birth: 10.10.1875
Date of Death: 18.03.1959
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. After his release Stern was a deputy pastor in Württemberg.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Stricker, Heinrich (Mr)Name: Stricker, Heinrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1958/ LV 0269
Date of Birth: 08.11.1891
Date of Death: 11.10.1964
Biography: Internment 1918. Teacher at the Mission Seminary in Basel from 1919 to 1953.
Profession: teacher in training (Lehramtskandidat)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Wertz, Jakob Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Wertz, Jakob Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1292
Date of Birth: 14.12.1868
Date of Death: 21.08.1945
Biography: Internment from 1917 to 1918. Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Stuttgart from 1919 to 1921. In Ghana again from 1930 to 1937.
Profession: printer (Buchdrucker)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Wiedemann, Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Wiedemann, Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1384
Date of Birth: 09.10.1873
Date of Death: 27.02.1944
Biography: City Missioner in Basel from 1916 to 1919. Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Zofingen, Switzerland from 1920 to 1932.
Profession: carrier (Ferger)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Zimmermann, Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Zimmermann, Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1470
Date of Birth: 14.02.1876
Date of Death: 05.10.1919
Biography: Interned 1917-1918.
Profession: taylor (Schneider)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Zimmermann-Weigelin, Mathilde (Mrs)
Need more information?, Nothwang-Bazlen, Maria (Mrs)Name: Nothwang-Bazlen, Maria (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 11.10.1881
Date of Death: 10.01.1966
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Nothwang, Erwin (Mr)
Need more information?, Jehle-Maag, Johanna Elise (Mrs)Name: Jehle-Maag, Johanna Elise (Mrs)
Date of Birth: 24.02.1882
Date of Death: 17.02.1950
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Jehle, Gustav Arthur (Mr)
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Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 8.7cm x 11.3cm
[Condition]: medium
[Special format]: postcard
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.030.0052
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.030.0052
Title: "Generalkonferenz Akropong 1913. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 1913

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