Missionary Giersch and a group of singer students, Mbozi, Tanzania, ca. 1906-1929

"Mbozi: Singschule von Erwachsenen u. Kindern im Freien. Br. Giersch." ("Mbozi: Outside class for singing for adults a[nd] children. Br[other] Giersch."). View of Missionary Giersch standing in front of a group of sitting Africans and three white children in the front row. Two African men, dressed in white, are standing behind the group. In the foreground: a basket with three writing boards leaning against it. On the left: part of a tile-roofed building. In the background: tile-roofed huts and trees. Ernst Otto Giersch (1878-1946 [1947]) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1906 to 1908 in Mbozi (together with his wife Anna Magdalena, née Seiler) and returned home because of illness. From 1927 to 1929 he again served in Mbozi.