Missionary Gemuseus saying farewell to Africans, Rungwe, Tanzania, 1931

"Rungwe. Abschied von Br. Gemuseus." ("Rungwe. Farewell of Br[other] Gemuseus."). On the right a group of ca. 30 African women is seated on the ground. On the left side view of Missionary Gemuseus and front view of an old female African with a wooden stick in her left hand: handshaking. 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.