Johann Flierl

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Johann Flierl at the age of 28

Johann Flierl (born April 16, 1858 in Buchhof near Fürnried , today Birgland parish , Upper Palatinate ; † September 30, 1947 in Neuendettelsau ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran missionary and founder of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in New Guinea .

Flierl joined the Neuendettelsau Mission Institution at the age of 17 and in 1878 traveled to South Australia as a missionary. There he worked for seven years among the Dieri , indigenous people of the inland desert.

After the northeastern part of the island of New Guinea became a German colony in 1885 ( Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land ), Flierl was the first Protestant missionary to travel to the new German protected area in 1886 . There he founded a mission station in Simbang near Finschhafen and later the Sattelberg health station (1892) and the Heldsbach station (1904). As field leader of the mission, Flierl achieved that the Neuendettelsau missionaries were allowed to continue working in New Guinea even after the First World War. Flierl himself stayed in New Guinea until 1930. By this time, 18 mission stations had been established and 25,000 Christians had been baptized.

Today the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea is the largest Evangelical Church in the Pacific region with over a million members (1,269,361 according to the last census in 2011).

literature

  • As a pioneer missionary to distant New Guinea. Johann Flierl's memoirs, edited, introduced and commented on by Susanne Froehlich. Part I: 1858--1886, Part II: 1886--1941 (Sources and research on the South Seas A.5), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2015.
  • Georg Pilhofer: History of the Neuendettelsau Mission in New Guinea , 3 volumes, Neuendettelsau 1961–1963.
  • Georg Pilhofer:  Flierl, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 246 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Flierl, Johann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 59-60.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Traugott Farnbacher: Responsible for the community: Beginnings, developments and perspectives of the community and offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea , LIT Publisher: Munster - Hamburg - London 1998, 500 pp., ISBN 3-8258-3848-X .
  • Traugott Farnbacher and Gernot Fugmann (eds.): Johann Flierl: A life for mission - Mission for life , Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, 2nd revised edition, Neuendettelsau 2009, 218 pages, ISBN 978-3-87214- 524-6 .
  • Christian Keyßer: Mission in people's lives. ed. by Gernot Fugmann and Philipp Hauenstein, Neuendettelsau: Erlanger Verl. für Mission und Ökumene, 2011, 226 pages, ISBN 978-3-87214-533-8

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Froehlich in: As a pioneer missionary in the distant New Guinea. Johann Flierl's memoirs, edited, introduced and commented on by Susanne Froehlich. Part I: 1858--1886, Part II: 1886--1941 (Sources and research on the South Seas A.5), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2015, Volume I, P. XVII.
  2. ↑ Ibid.
  3. ↑ Ibid., Pp. XVII - XVIII.
  4. ↑ Hermann J. Hiery in his foreword ibid., P. VIII.
personal data
SURNAME Flierl, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchhof near Fürnried , today the municipality of Birgland , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1947
Place of death Neuendettelsau