Carl Wandres

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Carl Wandres (born May 14, 1858 in Willstätt bei Kehl ; † January 31, 1933 in Chemnitz ) was a German missionary of the Rhenish Mission Society in the former German South West Africa , now Namibia .

Life

Carl Wandres began his career in a Barmer bookbindery and stationery store before he joined the Barmen mission house. Among others, the mission inspectors Friedrich Fabri and Ludwig von Rohden were his teachers. He received his ordination on August 13, 1884 when he was appointed to work in Großnamaland . From 1885 to 1899 he worked in Warmbad under the Bondelswart , where, in addition to his missionary work against alcohol abuse and land sales by the Nama, he appeared. Wandres learned the Nama language , he was also interested in the customs, traditions and legal conceptions and was in the course of time one of the best natives.

After a short stay in Germany, Wandres returned to South West Africa in 1900 to head the Nama and Damara congregations in Windhoek . Instead of the missionary Tobias Fenchel , who died in 1910 , Wandres went to Keetmanshoop in 1911 and worked there as President of the Nama Mission. In 1913 he returned to Germany after training his successor, missionary Friedrich Rust.

During the First World War , Wandres headed a Düsseldorf rectory . In 1920 he went back to South West Africa, headed the Nama congregation in Lüderitzbucht , and then also became pastor of the German congregation there. He also held services for the Boers .

In 1929 Wandre returned to Germany and retired.

family

Carl Wandres was married twice, his first wife died in 1912. Two sons died on the Eastern Front in World War I. His daughter Emma married his successor, the missionary Friedrich Rust, in 1920. Wandres married again in 1914.

Publications

  • Nama and Bergdamara proverbs
  • Explanation of animal names of the Hottentots
  • Old word lists of the Hottentot language , in: Journal for Colonial Languages ​​No. 9, pages 26–42
  • Namawords , in: Journal for Native Languages ​​No. 16, pp. 275-297
  • Animal names in the Nama and Bergdama languages , in: Festschrift Meinhof, Hamburg 1927
  • About the intellectual activity of the Hottentots . Lecture from the estate in: Reports of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, 90th year, May 1933, p. 138
  • Karl Meinhof (with contributions by Hermann Hegner, Diedrich Westermann and Carl Wandres): Textbook The Nama Language ; Georg Reimer Publishing House, Berlin 1909
  • Critical remarks on Vedder's attempt at a grammar for the Nama language , Archive for Otjiherero and Nama Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft, Vol. 4, 1909

literature

  • Friedrich Rust: Obituary (with photo) in: Reports of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, 90th year, May 1933, pages 131-137

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Dierks: History of Namibia. Retrieved July 15, 2015 .
  2. ^ Missionshaus Warmbad - the oldest building in Namibia. (No longer available online.) Gondwana Collection, archived from the original on July 15, 2015 ; accessed on July 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / typo3.p232710.webspaceconfig.de
  3. ^ Friedrich Rust. Namibiana Book Depot, accessed July 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Wandres, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in the former German South West Africa, today Namibia
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Willstätt
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1933
Place of death Chemnitz