cover image: August Hans, assistant schoolmaster. Blueliliesbosch, South Africa East

August Hans, assistant schoolmaster. Blueliliesbosch, South Africa East

“August Hans, Hilfslehrer. Blueliliesbosch“ („August Hans, assistant schoolmaster. Blueliliesbosch”). A woman wearing a plaid blouse and a man in a suit with a necktie. The woman is holding a baby in a cardigan in her arms. August Hans was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church and worked as a missionary in South Africa West.-- Willibald Paul Schaberg (1900-?) was born in Dresden where he worked as a teacher and theologian. In 1929 he married Elfriede Henrietta Johanna Nigrin in Herrnhut. That same year they went to South Africa West where Schaberg worked as a missionary in Elim until 1939 and again from 1948 onwards. From 1934 he was president of the mission in South Africa West. In 1935 he was in Moravian Hill / Cape Town. From 1939 until his return to South Africa he stayed in Germany.
clergy teachers group portraits
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m56965
Format
Photographic prints Photographs
Pages
5.1 x 8.3 cm
Place Discussed
Africa South Africa Unknown
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
South Africa
Reference
impa-m56965 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-11460
Rights
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany http://www.archiv.ebu.de unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/954d03065b065ef842cd0bc0b0fd09e5

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