oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-A62D-A
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| Title: | Des Hrn. Grafen von Zinzendorff Abschiedschreiben an die Negers in St. Thomas, in Cariolischer sprache. | |
| Zinzendorf Farewell Letter (3.1.1.) | ||
| Contributor (author): | Zinzendorf | |
| Coverage: | Virgin Islands (US) | |
| Date: | 1739-02-15 | |
| Description: | Farewell letter from Count Zinzendorf of Hernnhut written to the slaves of St. Thomas at the end of his visit to St. Thomas. | |
| Farewell letter from Count Zinzendorf of Hernnhut written to the slaves of St. Thomas at the end of his three-week visit to St. Thomas in 1739. It is most likely that one of the white people on St. Thomas (perhaps Carstens, with whom ZInzendorf stayed during his visit) wrote the letter for Count Zinzendorf (who may have dictated the letter) in the Creole language (Stein 1986). It was published in the Büdingische Sammlung (1742, vol. I, p.453-457), a collection of writings from Zinzendorf and from the community of the Moravian Brethren (Stein 1986). | ||
| MIssionary variety of Negerhollands. | ||
| The Count of Zinzendorf, born in Dresden on 26 May 1700, belonged to the High German Nobility. He received religious refugees from Moravia and ceded to them a part of his territory, on which in 1722 the town of Herrnhut was founded, the centre of the community of the Moravian Brethren (Stein 1986). The first mission of the Moravian Brethren to convert heathen to christianism was to St. Thomas, main island of the Virgin Islands, and started in 1732. In 1739 Zinzendorf visited | ||
| Format: | text/x-toolbox-text | |
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-A62D-A | |
| Publisher: | Prof. Dr. P. Muysken | |
| Centre for Language Studies | ||
| Subject: | Text with original written data | |
| Letter | ||
| Negerhollands language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | dcr | |
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| Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-A62D-A | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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| Citation: | Zinzendorf. 1739-02-15. Prof. Dr. P. Muysken. | |
| Terms: | area_Americas country_VI iso639_dcr | |
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| Country: | U.S. Virgin Islands | |
| Area: | Americas | |