Georg Gustav Ludwig August Mylius

Georg Gustav Ludwig August Mylius (born November 20, 1819 in Banneik near Wustrow , † May 21, 1887 in Nayudupeta ) was a German missionary .

Life

After attending school in Lüneburg and Ratzeburg , studying in Göttingen and working as a private tutor in the Duchy of Lauenburg , he joined the Dresden Mission (later: Leipzig Mission ), for which he went to India for the first time in 1847 . After a dispute with the mission leadership, he returned to Germany in 1850, where he became a prison chaplain in Hanover .

In 1864 Mylius traveled again to India, this time as a mission provost for the Hermannsburg mission . There he founded an Evangelical Lutheran church in what is now Andhra Pradesh , the South Andhra Lutheran Church (SALC). He was also actively involved in the dispute between the Hermannsburg and Leipzig missions over the evaluation of the Indian caste system . Mylius also emerged through writings on the Telugu language .

literature

• Lüdemann, Joachim, August Mylius (1819–1887), Lutheran missionary existence in Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh, Studies on Oriental Church History 15, Hamburg 2003.
• Hugald Grafe: Church under Dalits, Adivasi and caste people in South India. The Indian partner churches of the Lutheran churches in Lower Saxony. Becoming and growing. Series: Sources and contributions to the history of the Hermannsburg Mission and the Evangelical Lutheran. Mission in Lower Saxony. Vol. 22, LIT Verlag Berlin-Münster-Vienna-Zurich-London 2013. ISBN 978-3-643-12098-4
• Martin Tamcke :  Mylius, Georg Gustav Ludwig August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 867-870.