Hedwig Irle: Life of a Woman Missionary in Colonial Africa

Authors

Kimberly Merkley, Brigham Young University
Dr. Cindy Brewer, Brigham Young University

Keywords

women missionary, colonial Africa, Hedwig Irle, German

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

Along with my mentor, Cindy Brewer, my goal for my ORCA project was to research and write an introduction to a 30 page book, titled Die Schwarze Johanna, by a female German missionary in Namibia in the early 20th century. The text, as of now, has no digital copy and has only been printed in the original Gothic text in the German language. In my project proposal, I also outlined plans of submitting both my introduction and the transcribed version of the text itself to the Sophie Project, an online database which seeks to publish little-known works of German women authors.

Recommended Citation

Merkley, Kimberly and Brewer, Dr. Cindy (2013) "Hedwig Irle: Life of a Woman Missionary in Colonial Africa," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 874.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/874