August Pettinen

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August Pettinen (9 December 1857 Ristiina – 5 March 5, 1914) [1] [2] was a Finnish missionary who worked in Owamboland (now Namibia) for twenty years from 1887. He developed the mission schools, experimented with cotton cultivation in Owamboland and drew ndonga-language textbooks. He collected linguistic and ethnological material, [3] which was published in the periodical Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen between 1925 and 1927.

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Pettinen first worked at the Omangundu and Olukonda mission stations. In 1890, he founded the Ondangwa mission station [4] in the western part of Ondonga; this became his base. Pettinen was lively and friendly and won the trust of the local people. Pettinen was particularly interested in school work and devoted much of his energy in literary work. In addition to his collection of ethnographical photographs, he assembled his own folklore collection. In Ondangwa, a small cotton-manufacturing school was run by Pettinen.

Personal life

Pettinen's parents were school champion Karl Pettinen and Eve Katarina Pettinen. He attended the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission missionary school and he was ordained a missionary in 1886. Pettinen was a missionary in Owamboland in the years 1887–1896, 1899–1908 and 1911–1914.

Publications

Sources

  1. "BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN PERSONALITIES in alphabetical order". Klausdierks.com. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  2. "Anna Pettinen - Historical records and family trees". MyHeritage. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  3. Open Access Library website, Edhina Ekogidho - Names as Link, by Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa (2003)
  4. Allgemeine Zeitung website, Ondangwa - Where the Ondonga Rule, article by Wiebke Schmidt dated November 5, 2020
  5. "August+Pettinen" Google Books website, August Pettinen

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