Kitunda. Candidates for baptism. Brother Stern, Kitunda, Tanzania, [s.d.]

“Kitunda. Taufbewerber. Bruder Stern” (“Kitunda. Candidates for baptism. Brother Stern”). Group of 16 persons: 14 Africans (mostly young men / boys, white garment, partly European clothing, partly sitting), 1 European man (sitting on a small chair) and 1 European child, hut and plants behind them.; Rudolf Leupold(t) Stern was a theologian, born on June 15th, 1865 in Gorakhpur, East India, died March 12th, 1923 in Schönbruch, East Prussia. He married Hanna Binder in 1894 and the couple took up missionary work in Suriname that same year until 1897. From 1898-1908 Stern worked as a missionary in East Africa (1898 Urambo, 1899 Kiwere: foundation of a new mission station, 1906-08 Sikonge). In 1908 the couple returned to Germany.