Christian Wilhelm Gericke

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Christian Wilhelm Gericke (born April 5, 1742 in Colberg , Pomerania , † October 2/3, 1803 on a trip) was a German Pietist and Protestant missionary .

Gericke, who came from Pomerania , was ordained a missionary on August 11, 1763 in the court chapel of Wernigerode Castle and sent to East India , where he worked as a pastor. The diary of his trip to India was printed in 1773 by the publishing house of the Halle (Saale) orphanage and is entitled: Strange Sea Voyage from London to Ceylon and Cudelur in 1766 and 1767 . Further works by Gericke are Brief Message from the life and death of the English missionary Mr. Schwarz , published in: Modern history of the evangelical mission institutions for the conversion of the Gentiles in East India , 55 (1799), pp. 641–645 and reprinted in: Collections for Lovers of Christian Truth and Godliness , 15 (1800), pp. 165–174.

As an evangelical missionary he worked in Cuddalore and from 1788 in Madras (today: Chennai). In 1769 he married Anna Sophie Hüttemann in Cuddalore , a daughter of Georg Heinrich Conrad Hüttemann (1728–1781), who also worked as a missionary in 1750 to India and in Cuddalore.

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SURNAME Gericke, Christian Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Pietist and Protestant missionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1803 or October 3, 1803