"Synode in Abetifi 1926. "
Item Details
Title:
"Synode in Abetifi 1926. "
Alternate title:
"Synod in Abetifi, 1926."
Description
Names
Dates
Date early:
1926
Proper date:
1926
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Location:
People:
Subject
Keywords:
religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, church, communication, group, men's wear, missionary m, pastor m, stone wall, synod, window Individuals:
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?, Jost, Friedrich Adolf (Mr)Name: Jost, Friedrich Adolf (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1353
Date of Birth: 22.06.1871
Date of Death: 19.10.1942
Biography: Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in Switzerland from 1918 to 1926. After his first wife , Elisabeth Jost-Brugger, died in 1907 he married Emma Jost-Raedelfinger in 1912.
Profession: saddler (Sattler)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: [leer] N
Need more information?, Nyfeler, Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Nyfeler, Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1772
Date of Birth: 21.06.1886
Date of Death: 31.01.1948
Biography: Travelling secretary of the Basel Mission and deputy pastor from 1915 to 1925 and from 1933 to 1946. Moved to Ghana again in 1926 and travelled through Cameroon between 1926 and 1932.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}, Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Schäfer, Wilhelm (Mr)Name: Schäfer, Wilhelm (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1662
Date of Birth: 26.07.1884
Date of Death: 28.10.1978
Biography: Schäfer was a deputy pastor from 1914 to 1925 and city missioner in Freiburg after 1936. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't mention the date of his pension and if it was in Freiburg, Germany or in Freiburg, Switzerland.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Wilkie (Mr)
Relationships
Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 11.9cm x 20.5cm
[Condition]: medium
[Type of support]: cardboard
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver
[Condition]: medium
[Type of support]: cardboard
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.030.0063
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.030.0063
Title: "Synode in Abetifi 1926. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 1926
“Synode in Abetifi 1926. ,” BMArchives, accessed May 14, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/71028.
Title: "Synode in Abetifi 1926. "
Creator: unknown
Date: 1926
“Synode in Abetifi 1926. ,” BMArchives, accessed May 14, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/71028.
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