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Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler.Krapf played an important role in exploring East Africa with Johannes Rebmann.
The first European to cross Tewodros' path after this lack of a response happened to be Henry Stern, a British missionary.Stern had also mentioned the Emperor's humble origins in a book he had published; although the reference was not intended to be insulting ("the eventful and romantic history of the man, who, from a poor boy, in a reed-built convent became...the conqueror of numerous ...
The Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842 is a journal published in 1843 at London. It contains the geographical memoir of the eastern part of the ...
By the 19th century, Merina controlled the whole island. In 1500, the Portuguese were the first Europeans on the island, raiding the trading settlements. [104] The British and later the French arrived. During the latter part of the 17th century, Madagascar was a popular transit point for pirates.
P'ent'ay Christians use the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity prior to the 1960s as their own history, despite lacking historical continuity. It was only during the early 20th century that American and European missionaries spread Protestantism with Mennonite and Pentecostal churches through the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM). [27]
Karl Wilhelm Isenberg (Barmen, September 5, 1806 – Stuttgart, October 10, 1864), spelt or known by names Carl Wilhelm Isenberg or Charles William Isenberg or C. W. Isenberg or Carl W. Isenberg or Charles Isenberg, was a German Church Missionary Society missionary and linguist to East Africa and Western India.
Performing music on stage, the use of the theater for dramatic music productions, and the establishment of dance, marching bands, and music conservatories were among the European ideas adopted by Ethiopian musicians. [1] Within the same period, music began to have an important role in Ethiopia's military.
Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China; Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair; Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China; Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign ...