Gerhard Althaus
Gerhard Althaus (born April 24, 1866 in Fallersleben , † March 8, 1946 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German Protestant clergyman, pastor and missionary .
Life
Gerhard Althaus was born as the son of the superintendent von Fallersleben, August Althaus, into a large family of pastors in Lower Saxony. His brother Paul Althaus the elder , his nephew Paul Althaus the younger and one of his children Georg Althaus .
After his school education in Gütersloh , Helmstedt and Celle , he studied Protestant theology at the universities in Tübingen , Leipzig and Göttingen .
On May 11, 1892, following a personal request from Director Karl von Schwartz, he became a student of the Leipzig Mission House (now the Leipziger Missionswerk ) and then learned Swahili at the seminar for oriental languages in Berlin . On May 24, 1893, he was seconded as a missionary to what was then the German colony of German East Africa (now Tanzania ), where he co-founded the German Evangelical Mission. In July 1894 he and his colleague Traugott Päsler set up the Mamba mission station at the foot of Kilimanjaro , which he directed and lived in with his family in the following years. Due to illness, he had to resign from the missionary service in 1910.
After returning to Germany, Althaus became a pastor in Stadtilm . From 1915 to 1927 he was head of the Marienstift in Braunschweig . He ended his professional life as pastor of Barum and Cramme near Wolfenbüttel.
literature
- Mamba - beginning in Africa. Edited by Hans-Ludwig Althaus. Erlangen Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Erlangen 1992, ISBN 3-87214-254-2 .
Web links
- Brief portrait on the website of the Leipziger Missionswerk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Althaus, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor and missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fallersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1946 |
| Place of death | Wolfenbüttel |