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Evangelical News Service Germany (epd)
July 17th, 2007:
Grave
of Gerlingen's China Missionary Wilhelm Maisch found
Translated into English from the German text of epd Gerlingen, Germany (epd). In
China the grave of a significant pioneer missionary from Gerlingen was
found. On Saturday (21st of July) a delegation of 25 people
from Hongkong will hand over pictures and documents from Wilhelm Maisch (1878
- 1924) to the Johannes Rebmann Museum, which documents the
work of missionaries from Gerlingen. The city council informes, that
the hand over will be after a church service in Gerlingen's
Petruskirche (church). Afterwards Thomas Tsang, the Secretary-General
of Tsung-Tsin-Mission, will hand over pictures from Maisch's
grave and report about traces of Maisch's work. The Archives of
Gerlingen found out that in 19th century in Gerlingen more evangelical
missionaries emerged than in every other comparable community in Württemberg.
The most famous are the farmer's son Johannes Rebmann (1820 -
1876),
who operated in East Africa and discovered in 1848 the Kilimanjaro,
and Johannes Zimmermann (1825
- 1876), who was for 26 years at the Gold Coast in nowadays Ghana
- as linguist, translator of songs and bible texts. Since 2002 the
work of at present 23 missionaries from Gerlingen of 18th and 19th
century is documented in Johannes Rebmann's birthplace. In fact Johannes Rebmann
as discoverer of Kilimanjaro was always unforgotten in his hometown,
but the engagement for the most of the others was initialized on
requests from their earlier areas of operation. For example Johannes Zimmermann
and his work came to the fore because of questions from Ghana, also the
new, more intensive research about missionary Wilhelm Maisch
was inspired from China.
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