[German Version]

(Mar 7, 1877, Geroldsgrün – Dec 14, 1961, Neuendettelsau) worked on behalf of the ¶ Neuendettelsau Mission in Papua New Guinea from 1899 to 1920. He conducted missionary work in the style of local politics. When a crisis of traditional order brought about by colonial history began to manifest itself, conversions of entire groups took place – as tended to happen in Oceania. Keyßer immediately assigned the responsibility for missionary work to these nascent communities as their own task. As a tea…