Charles Frederic Wenzel (1769–18??) was a
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Lutheran missionary who worked in
Sierra Leone. He worked under the auspices of the Anglican
Church Missionary Society (CMS).
Wenzel was from
Breslau,
Silesia and attended a seminary in
Berlin. He left for
England in 1807, where he presented himself to the CMS who found him suitable missionary material.
In 1816, he was appointed to the missionary facilities at
Kissy,
Sierra Leone. This village had been founded to accommodate
liberated enslaved Africans who had been freed by the
Royal Navy's
West Africa Squadron. In 1818, Wenzel ran a school at which 74 boys and 72 girls attended.
He married Frances Beverhout, the daughter of
Henry Beverhout Henry Beverhout was an African-Caribbean methodist minister who led a company of Nova Scotian settlers who settled in Sierra Leone.
Beverhout was an African-Caribbean person born free in St Croix, an island in the Danish West Indies.Fyfe C. (1991) ...
.
Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer (1776–1825, Kissy, Sierra Leone) was a German Lutheran missionary and linguist who worked in Sierra Leone. He worked under the auspices of the Anglican Church Mission Society, Church Missionary Society (CMS).
Nyländ ...
was his brother-in-law.
References
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German Anglican missionaries