"Twisynode, Aburi, 1909. Akuapemvertreter: mit Miss. Nothwang, Rottmann, Bellon Pfr. Hall, Clerk, Kwabi, Cpoku. "
Item Details
Title:
"Twisynode, Aburi, 1909. Akuapemvertreter: mit Miss. Nothwang, Rottmann, Bellon Pfr. Hall, Clerk, Kwabi, Cpoku. "
Alternate title:
"Twisynod, Aburi, 1909. Akuapem representatns: with missionary Nothwang, Rottmann, Bellon pastor Hall, Clerk, Kwabi, Cpoku."
Description
Names
Creator:
[leer] N
Dates
Date early:
1909
Proper date:
1909
Geography
Location:
[Geography]: Africa {continent}: Ghana {modern state}: Ghana {traditional states}: Akwapim {traditional state}: Aburi {place}
People:
Subject
Keywords:
communication, group, religion and philosophy (general), Christianity, missionary m, necktie, palm, synod
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?, Kwabi (Mr)Name: Kwabi (Mr)
Biography: For Philip Smith Kwabi see under Smith. (PST).
Profession: preacher
Geographic references: Land of origin: Ghana {country of origin}, 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?, 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?, [leer] N, Hall, Henry (Mr)Name: Hall, Henry (Mr)
Biography: Housemaster in the girls' boarding school in Aburi.
Profession: housemaster
Geographic references: Land of origin: Ghana {country of origin}
Need more information?, Cpoku (Mr)Name: Cpoku (Mr)
Biography: Pastor
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
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Relationships
Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 11cm x 17cm
[Condition]: bad
[Type of support]: [leerl] W 1201
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, collodion
Identifier
Reference:
QD-30.112.00123
Citation:
Reference: BMA QD-30.112.00123
Title: "Twisynode, Aburi, 1909. Akuapemvertreter: mit Miss. Nothwang, Rottmann, Bellon Pfr. Hall, Clerk, Kwabi, Cpoku. "
Creator: [leer] N
Date: 1909

[leer] N, “Twisynode, Aburi, 1909. Akuapemvertreter: mit Miss. Nothwang, Rottmann, Bellon Pfr. Hall, Clerk, Kwabi, Cpoku. ,” BMArchives, accessed April 8, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/71946.
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