Missionaries Oskar and Mathilde Gemuseus, Rungwe, Tanzania, ca.1929-1930

"Rungwe: Geschwister Gemuseus." ("Rungwe: Brother and Sister Gemuseus."). Couple with a white cat on the front steps of a residential building. Photo taken during the visitation of Brother Samuel Baudert 1929/1930. -- 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.