How to Pronounce Gottlieb Viehe
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Mar 27, 1839 Mennighüffen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Died on 01 Jan 1901 (aged 61)
German missionary
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About Gottlieb Viehe
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe (27 March 1839 – 1 January 1901) was a German missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (Rhenish Missionary Society) and an early settler in present-day Namibia.
- He was born in Mennighüffen, (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.
