cover image: Source, Rungwe, Tanzania, 1902-1904

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Source, Rungwe, Tanzania, 1902-1904

"Blick nach der Quelle in Rungwe. Geschw. Zickmantel, Dora Meyer, Br. Böhme u. Heini Meyer, Schw. Meyer u. Traudel." ("View towards the source in Rungwe.Br[ethren] Zickmantel, Dora Meyer, Br[other] Böhme a[nd] Heini Meyer, Sis[ter] Meyer a[nd] Traudel."). Missionaries at a source in Rungwe: Agnes and Johannes Zickmantel, Dora Meyer (seated), Missionary Emil Böhme and Heini Meyer, Sister Lydia Meyer and Traudel (all from left). Imprinted on the image: "Blick auf Rungwe-Quelle. D.O.A. No. 1034." ("View of Rungwe Source. German East Africa No. 1034."). Included from the box of duplicates. -- Lydia Maria Meyer (1865 in South Africa -- 1907), née Kunick, was a teacher and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine having gotten married to Theodor Meyer (1864-1933) in 1893. Until her death she served in Nyasa, East Africa. -- Ernst Emil Böhme (1870-1938) was a mission artisan of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1900 to 1903 as head of the joinery, as building foreman from 1903 to 1905 in Kyimbila, from 1905 to 1907 in Isoko and from 1907 to 1909 in Rutenganio. Until being interned in 1916 he was head of the station in Ipanya. In 1907 he married Emma, née Gründel. -- Martin Johannes Zickmantel (1866-1922) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Marie Agnes Hartmann in 1897, he served from 1898 to 1904 in Rutenganio and from 1904 to 1914 in Rungwe, staying also some time between 1912 and 1914 in Isoko. After the death of his first wife in 1903 in Rutenganio he married Elisabeth Louise Hartmann (1882-1963) in 1906. She served again from 1928 for many years in what is now Tanzania.
clergy water resources group portraits

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7905
Date published
1902/1904
Dates
1902/1904
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic prints, 9.7 x 14.2 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Rungwe Tanzania
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Tanzania
Reference
impa-m7905 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-01034
Rights
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de Moravian Archives Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/ Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/47d51fa231e870ed106145f1c6b48df7

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