Christian Hornberger

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Commemorative plaque in memory of Christian Hornberger at the municipal library in Oberkochen

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Hornberger (born October 27, 1831 in Oberkochen ; † May 31, 1881 in Keta in what is now Ghana ) was a Protestant missionary .

Life

Christian Hornberger was born as the son of the pastor Johann Christian Hornberger in Oberkochen. He grew up in Oberkochen, Ostelsheim and Korntal . After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Böblingen , he began training at the Basel Mission seminar in 1854 . In 1858 he entered the service of the North German Mission Bremen and worked for them - interrupted only by three home leave - as a missionary among the Ewe in West Africa. Stations were Anyako (1858–59 and 1872–74), Waya (1859–60), Ho (1860–1869) and finally from 1872 until his death Keta.

In 1866 he married Wilhelmine Luise Friederike Roth, who died in 1870. He married his second wife, Rosa Frey, in 1872.

In addition to his work as a missionary, Hornberger undertook several exploratory trips, especially in the first years of his stay in Africa, which he evaluated geographically (including the first map of the Ewe area in 1864), ethnographically and linguistically in several scientific articles. As early as 1863 Hornberger made numerous photographs of his mission country and the people living there.

Fonts

  • The Ewe area on the slave coast of West Africa . In: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new researches in the whole field of geography . tape 13 , 1867, p. 48 ff . (better known as Petermann's Geographical Communications ).

literature

  • [Various articles] . In: Monthly newspaper of the North German Mission Society (MNM) . (1862-1884).
  • Paul Jenkins, Thomas Theye: Further Consideration of Two Photographs Ascribed to Christian Hornberger . In: History in Africa . tape 22 , 1995, p. 271-279 .
  • Rainer Alsheimer: picture as a missionary treatise. 19th century Protestant photos from West Africa . In: Photographs of Everyday Life - Photography as Everyday Life . LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7159-2 , p. 149-166 .
  • Sonja Sawitzki: Ho / Wegbe . In: Volkskunde u. Historical anthropology . University of Bremen State Archives Bremen, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-88722-535-X , p. 55 ff .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Hornberger. on oberkochen-evangelisch.de. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Ilse Theil: Journey to the Land of the Shadow of Death . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1026-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Hornberger, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornberger, Christian Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary in West Africa
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkochen
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1881
Place of death Keta , West Africa