German mission in Abyssinia: Wilhelm Staiger from Baden, 1835-1904

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Title:	German mission in Abyssinia: Wilhelm Staiger from Baden, 1835-1904
Author:	Perry, Yaron
Year:	2008
Periodical:	Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies
Volume:	11
Pages:	48-60
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ethiopia
Subjects:	missions Falasha 1860-1869
About persons:	Wilhelm Staiger (1835-1904) Tewodros II, keizer van Ethiopië (1818-1868)
External link:	https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/143/121
Abstract:	In the wake of the French Revolution, seen by many Protestants as the forerunner of the second coming of Jesus, a crucial element in the realization of this apocalyptic vision was the conversion of the Jews, or alternatively, drawing them closer to belief in the Christian Messiah. Thus scores of missionaries, mostly members either of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews or the Basler Pilgermission, arrived in Ethiopia during the mid-1850s and the early 1860s with the aim of drawing the local Jews towards Christianity. Amongst them was the German missionary Wilhelm Staiger (1835-1904). Staiger subsequently recorded his experiences in Ethiopia, where he became caught up in the political turmoil between Great Britain and Teodoros II (1818-1868). Together with other European missionaries, he was held in captivity by the emperor for four-and-a-half years. They were rescued by a British expeditionary force in April 1868. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]