cover image: Brother Baudert and Elias Mzuku, South Africa East

Brother Baudert and Elias Mzuku, South Africa East

„Br. Baudert und Elias Mzuku“ („Br[other] Baudert and Elias Mzuku“). Elias Mzuku and Brother Baudert standing next to a hut, wearing suits and hats. Baudert is holding a jacket in his left hand. A bit behind on the left side of the picture another man in a suit, not fully visible. Plants and a hill in the background. Samuel Baudert (1879-1956), born as son of the missionary Samuel Baudert in South Africa, was mission director of the Moravian Brethren from 1924 to 1927 and since 1929 their bishop.--Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.--Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).
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Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57924
Format
Photographic prints Photographs
Pages
8.1 x 5.5 cm
Place Discussed
Africa South Africa Unknown
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
South Africa
Reference
impa-m57924 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-4-08503
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/f71a2e9f7b829031a6814f2047b0eeb6

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