page_title: Eugen Liebendörfer
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Eugen Liebendörfer / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: coat of arms of the family Liebendörfer Deutsch: Wappen der Familie Liebendörfer
context_page_description: Eugen Liebendörfer was the first German missionary doctor in India as part of the Basel Mission. He was also a co-founder of the Association for Medical Mission at Stuttgart that evolved into the German Institute for Medical Mission, an organization for worldwide Christian medical mission based in Tübingen.
context_section_description: The Liebendörfer family had been living in the Württemberg region since the end of the Thirty Years' War. 
  Eugen Liebendörfer was the son of Jakob Friedrich Liebendörfer (who died in 1880 at Wain), who was the station commander of the Landjäger special police force in Leutkirch, and Elisabeth Lochbiller from Memmingen (who died in 1899 at Ravensburg).
caption: Coat of arms of the Liebendörfer family
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