Gottlieb Viehe

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe ( born March 27, 1839 in Mennighüffen ( now part of wages), Westphalia, † January 15, 1901 in Okahandja, German South-West Africa, now Namibia ) was a which originate from the Ravens Berger revival of Evangelical Lutheran missionary and author in German South-West Africa. He was Präses the Herero country and as the successor of Peter Heinrich Brinckerhoff director of Augustineum, a company founded in 1866 teachers and evangelists school in Otjimbingwe.

Life

Viehe was the sixth of 12 children of Johann Hermann Heinrich Viehe, born Lower Stuke from Häver, and Anne Cathrine Marie Elisabeth Viehe. The family emigrated in 1844 to Indiana ( USA). Through the influence of his pious mother Viehe grew up in the Christian faith.

For training, he returned to Germany in the mission house to Barmen back. In the fall of 1861 he entered the seminary, on 16 August 1866, he passed his exams, and on 17 October he was ordained to serve as a missionary.

He then went as a missionary of the Rhenish Missionary Society to the Hereros in the later German South-West Africa. He worked in Otjimbingwe (1867-1870), Omaruru (1870-1887), again in Otjimbingwe (1889-1890) and most recently in Okahandja ( 1890-1901 ).

Viehe was a great connoisseur of the Herero language, the author of a grammar and a dictionary. He has also written a number of writings and translations spiritual content and ethnographic items.