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[Geography]: Europe {continent}: Switzerland {modern state}: Basel-Stadt {region}: Basel {place}
[Geography]: Europe {continent}: Switzerland {modern state}: Basel-Stadt {region}: Basel {place}: Mission House premises and garden {other geogr names}
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seminarist m, theology, training, window
Individuals:
Breidenbach, Martin (Mr)Name: Breidenbach, Martin (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1192
Date of Birth: 11.05.1866
Date of Death: 16.03.1944
Profession: plasterer; painter and decorator (Gipser; Maler)
Geographic references: Mission area: India {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Breidenbach-Weber, Johanna Julia (Mrs)
Need more information?, Engel, Gottlob (Mr)Name: Engel, Gottlob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1316
Date of Birth: 10.10.1868
Date of Death: 24.05.1939
Biography: After leaving the Basel Mission worked for a Methodist college in Poona and then for the Australian presbyterians in Korea and Australia. Awarded D.D.
Profession: teacher (Lehrer)
Geographic references: Mission area: India {mission area}
Need more information?, Lutz, Traugott (Mr)Name: Lutz, Traugott (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1226
Date of Birth: 14.06.1868
Date of Death: 24.03.1937
Biography: Portrait ref. no. QS-30.001.0811 gives "1930" as year of death.
Profession: secondary school pupil (Ober-Realschüler)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Lutz, Theodor G. (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: India {mission area}
Need more information?, Mader, Philipp Friedrich (Mr)Name: Mader, Philipp Friedrich (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1188
Date of Birth: 19.02.1865
Date of Death: 11.07.1893
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}
Need more information?, Obrecht, Leonhard (Mr)Name: Obrecht, Leonhard (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1207
Date of Birth: 10.07.1864
Date of Death: 13.02.1902
Profession: baker (Bäcker)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Rottmann, Gottlob Samuel (Mr)Name: Rottmann, Gottlob Samuel (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1264
Date of Birth: 05.05.1866
Date of Death: 06.01.1951
Biography: After his return from Ghana Rottmann was a travelling secretary of the Basel Mission in several cities in Switzerland, France and Germany.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Relationships: Bruder/Schwester von: Rottmann, Wilhelm Jacob (Mr), Tochter/Sohn von: Rottmann, Hermann Ludwig (Mr)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
Need more information?, Spiess, Karl Ludwig August (Mr)Name: Spiess, Karl Ludwig August (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1215
Date of Birth: 09.04.1867
Date of Death: 05.10.1936
Biography: Bremen Mission. BV ("List of the Brethren") doesn't give an exact mission area: Spiess was in Ghana or Togo. After his return he was the secretary of the Bremen Mission.
Profession: commercial clerk (Kaufmann)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}, Mission area: Togo {mission area}
Need more information?, Stolz, Karl Friedr. (Mr)Name: Stolz, Karl Friedr. (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1214
Date of Birth: 14.03.1867
Date of Death: 07.07.1951
Biography: Internment in Duala and England 1915.
Profession: carpenter (Schreiner)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}
Need more information?, Vetterli, Jakob (Mr)Name: Vetterli, Jakob (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1209
Date of Birth: 15.05.1865
Date of Death: 21.03.1940
Biography: Bremen Mission. After his return from the USA Vetterli was an evangelist and a preacher in several cities in Switzerland.
Profession: dyer (Seidenfärber)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}, Mission area: USA {mission area}
Need more information?, Weidner, Philipp (Mr)Name: Weidner, Philipp (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1199
Date of Birth: 21.01.1867
Date of Death: 10.06.1898
Profession: blacksmith (Schmied)
Geographic references: Mission area: India {mission area}
Need more information?, Wittwer, Karl (Mr)Name: Wittwer, Karl (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1206
Date of Birth: 10.05.1864
Date of Death: 19.11.1940
Biography: After his first wife's death Karl Wittwer married (1904) Maria Rosa Lüthi.
Profession: farmer (Bauer)
Geographic references: Mission area: Cameroon {mission area}
Relationships: verheiratet mit: Wittwer-Müller, Luise Bertha (Mrs)
Need more information?, Pfisterer, Andreas (Mr)Name: Pfisterer, Andreas (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 1233
Date of Birth: 23.03.1863
Date of Death: 20.12.1923
Biography: Pfisterer was dismissed in 1899. He changed to the Bremer Mission and stayed in Ghana until 1910. After his return he was a teacher in Württemberg until 1923.
Profession: bookbinder (Buchbinder)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
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Physical
Type:
Still Image
Format:
[Format]: 13.7cm x 21.7cm
[Condition]: medium
[Process]: b/w positive, paper print, albumen
Identifier
Reference:
QS-30.019.0007
Citation:
Reference: BMA QS-30.019.0007
Title: "--- "
Creator: unknown
Date:

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