Missionary archives from Lesotho, 1832-2006
Contributors: Morija Museum & Archives
Series: Primary source collection; Primary source collection
Publisher: Brill Online Primary Sources
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, MA
Language: eng
Subjects: Archives; Missionaries; Missions; Sotho (African people); Sources; History; Sotho language; Church history; Newspapers; Christianity; Lesotho Evangelical Church; Morija Museum & Archives
Other titles: Leselinyana la Lesutho.; Leselinyana la Lesotho.
Description: "Missionary Archives from Lesotho, 1832-2006 contains both the ethnographic and historical archives of the first missionary in Lesotho, D.F. Ellenberger, as well as the complete run of the bi-weekly magazine, the Leselinyana, from 1863 till 2006. The collection also includes historical maps, church archives, personal registers (birth, baptism, and marriage), missionaries' correspondence, and it features the first written documents from the region. The collection is an important source for historians, theologians, anthropologists, ethnographers and linguists working on Southern Africa or with an interest in Southern Africa.... The missionaries documented not only the history of Basotho/Lesotho but also created dictionaries, bible translations and linguistic publications in and about the Sesotho language. The collection of mostly unpublished documents by David Frédéric Ellenberger, completed by his son René Ellenberger, covers the history of the Basotho from early times until 1854 and includes handdrawn maps and monographs. Together with church archives and some travel reports, these documents form a unique collection on the history of this region."--Brill products page.
Notes: "Archives of the Morija Museum Lesotho and other documents"--Brill products page.

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Interface in English; documents in English, French, and Sesotho.
Table of contents: title: Arbousset's excursion; title: D.F. Ellenberger collection; title: E.D. Jacottet collection; title: King Moshoeshoe's I; title: Leloaleng Trader School; title: Leselinyana magazine (1863-2006); title: Other documents; title: Rev. Brutsch collection; title: Rev. E. Casalis collection; title: Rev. H. Dieterlen collection; title: Rev. L.T. Cochet collection; title: Rev. P. Ellenberger collection; title: Rev. Rammoko's collection; title: Travel reports.