Gottlieb Viehe

Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe (March 27, 1839 - January 1, 1901) was a German missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (Rhenish Missionary Society) and an early settler in present-day Namibia. He was born in Mennighöffen, (now part of the city of Löhne).

His first exposure to missionary work in Africa was in 1867 at the settlement of Otjimbingwe where he worked with the Ovaherero. In 1870 he moved to Omaruru and established a small school for children of European settlers. In 1872, he built a mission house in Omaruru, and soon after translated the New Testament into the Otjiherero language.

In 1885, Viehe constructed the first meteorological station in the newly formed colony of German Southwest Africa at Omaruru. In 1890, he moved to Okahandja, where he was head of the Augustineum. It was here he had a confrontation with Theodor Leutwein, commandant of the Schutztruppe, who accused Viehe of "mild treatment" in regard to his relations with indigenous Africans.

External links

Namibia Library of Dr. Klaus Dierks (biography of Gottlieb Viehe)

Protestant missions to Africa

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People	William Anderson Frederick Stanley Arnot John Arthur Samuel Bill Joseph Booth Daniel Coker Daniel Kumler Flickinger George Grenfell Carl Hugo Hahn Joseph Hardcastle Joseph Crane Hartzell Johannes Ittmann Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt Johann Ludwig Krapf Margaret Nicholl Laird Christian Ignatius Latrobe David Livingstone Mary Livingstone (née Moffat) Alexander Murdoch Mackay Joseph Merrick Robert Moffat Andrew Murray Helen Roseveare Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder John Philip Martti Rautanen Alfred Saker Heinrich Schmelen William Henry Sheppard Mary Slessor John McKendree Springer Charles Studd William Taylor Gottlieb Viehe

Missionary agencies	American Board Africa Inland Mission Berlin Missionary Society BMS World Mission Congo-Balolo Mission Christian and Missionary Alliance Church Mission Society Finnish Missionary Society Heart of Africa Mission Livingstone Inland Mission London Missionary Society Mission Africa Mission to the World Paris Evangelical Missionary Society Rhenish Missionary Society USPG WEC International Wycliffe Global Alliance

Pivotal events	Slave Trade Act 1807 Slavery Abolition Act 1833

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 46522359 LCCN: no2006092129 ISNI: 0000 0001 0895 320X GND: 189559136

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