Lebensbild von Missionar Oskar Gemuseus
The article begins by following the life of Oskar Gemuseus (1874-1959). He grew up in Herrnhut and was trained as a teacher by the Moravian Church. In 1899 he became a teacher at the teacher training college in Niesky. The half year that he spent in England in 1904 was formative. From the end of 190...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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Herrnhuter-Verlag
2023
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Unitas Fratrum
Year: 2023, Volume: 82, Pages: 189-247 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBB German language area KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Moravian Church
B National Socialism B Evangelists B Moravians B World War I B Teacher Training |
| Summary: | The article begins by following the life of Oskar Gemuseus (1874-1959). He grew up in Herrnhut and was trained as a teacher by the Moravian Church. In 1899 he became a teacher at the teacher training college in Niesky. The half year that he spent in England in 1904 was formative. From the end of 1904 until 1906 he served as secretary for the Moravian Church's work in Bohemia and Moravia. In the summer of 1906 he accepted a call to serve as a teacher at the mission station school in Rungwe (Tanganyika), for which he was able to set off in April 1907. There he developed a school for training indigenous teachers. The First World War forced him to close the school after the British conquest of the Niassa Province in 1916. He was interned and did not return to Germany until October 1919. After an interim teaching appointment, he was able to travel back in January 1925 and was called to serve as superintendent of all the mission stations. The article describes the difficulties of the new beginning under British rule, the excessive burden borne by Gemuseus, and the support that he received from additional colleagues from Germany. It concentrates on the following themes: the problem of the mission's property holdings, relations with the pentecostal churches, the language problem (English, Swahili, German), the influence of Nazism, the search for a new understanding of mission, the struggle to make the mission more locally rooted, the founding of a federation of mission churches on a Lutheran basis, the ordination of indigenous evangelists, and Gemuseus' return to Europe in 1939, as well as his literary activity in Kleinwelka. Appended to the article are the memoirs of the evangelists Sakaliya Mwakasungula und Aswile Kangele and also Gemuseus' essay "Ich glaube", about the difficulty of appropriate exegesis. |
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| ISSN: | 0344-9254 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Evangelische Brüder-Unität, Unitas Fratrum
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