Missionary Gemuseus with porters, Rungwe, Tanzania, ca.1929-1930

"Rungwe: Br. Gemuseus verteilt Lasten an Träger" ("Rungwe: Br[other] Gemuseus distributes loads among the porters"). On the right the porch of the residential building, on the left and in the background circa 30 porters are lined up listening to Missionary Gemuseus' instructions. Photo taken during the visitation of Brother Samuel Baudert 1929/1930. -- The middle part has been destroyed by light. -- Oskar Gemuseus (1874 - 1959) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served as headmaster from 1907 to 1916, as mission superintendent of Nyassa [Nyasa] Province from 1925 to 1930, as bishop from 1932 to 1939. Starting in 1939 he wrote a history of the mission in Nyasa Province ("Wechselnde Gezeiten an den Gestaden des Nyassa"). His wife was Mathilde, née Richter. See his publications: "Mission und Gold", Herrnhut 1936 "Ein Gebundener Jesu Christi (über Fiwombe)", Hamburg 1950 "Sakalija Mwakasungala", Hamburg 1953.