Gottlieb Viehe
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe (born March 27, 1839 in Mennighüffen (today a district of Löhne ), Westphalia ; † January 15, 1901 in Okahandja , German Southwest Africa , today Namibia ) was an Evangelical Lutheran missionary and author who emerged from the Ravensberg revival movement in German South West Africa. He was President of the Herero Mission and, as the successor to Peter Heinrich Brincker, head of the Augustineum , a school for teachers and evangelists founded in Otjimbingwe in 1866 .
Life
Viehe was the sixth of 12 children of Johann Hermann Heinrich Viehe , born Niederstuke from Häver , and Anne Cathrine Marie Elisabeth Viehe . The family emigrated to Indiana (USA) in 1844 . Under the influence of his pious mother, cattle grew up in the Christian faith.
For training he returned to Germany in the mission house in Barmen . In the autumn of 1861 he entered the seminary one, on 16 August 1866 he passed his exams, and on 17 October he was to serve as a missionary ordained .
He then went to the Herero in what would later become German South West Africa as a missionary for the Rhenish Mission Society . He worked in Otjimbingwe (1867–1870), in the Rhenish Mission House Omaruru (1870–1887), again in Otjimbingwe (1889–1890) and most recently in Okahandja (1890–1901).
Viehe was an excellent expert on the Herero language , author of a grammar and a dictionary. He also wrote a number of scriptures, a translation of the Bible, and ethnographic articles.
Works
- Grammar of the Otjiherero and dictionary , in: Textbooks of the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin , W. Spemann, Stuttgart / Berlin 1897, Volume 16. ( PDF )
literature
- Walter Moritz: Mennighüffener missionary as a mission strategist among the Herero. Gottlieb Viehe in Otjimbingwe, Omaruru, Okahandja 1867–1901 . In: From the old days in the southwest . Volume 19, self-published by Werther, 2005
Web links
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Allgemeine Zeitung : In the footsteps of missionary Gottlieb Viehe , accessed July 17, 2015
- Walter Moritz: Mennighüfen missionary Gottlieb Viehe as a mission strategist among the Herero , accessed on July 17, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cattle, Gottlieb |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Viehe, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German missionary and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mennighüffen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1901 |
| Place of death | Okahandja |