Heinrich Vieter

Heinrich Vieter

Heinrich Vieter, SAC, was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun (today Cameroon).

Missionary work

Heinrich Vieter arrived in Douala with seven other members of the mission on 25 October 1890.[1] Over the next 13 years, Vieter led the Pallottines as they opened missions and schools across the territory.[2]

He befriended the young Ntsama Atangana at the mission school in Kribi; Atangana would later gift the Pallottines with land in Jaunde (Yaoundé).[3]

When a Bulu leader Martin-Paul Samba was sentenced to death for treason against Germany in 1914, Vieter appealed for a stay, but his requests were ignored.[4]

Teaching

Vieter taught at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen [de] (SOS), (usually known in English as the Oriental Seminary) in Berlin sometime between 1909 and 1915, along with Hermann Nekes [de].[5][6]

Beatification

A process of beatification of Vieter was initiated by the Archbishop of Jaunde in early 2005, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Cameroon.^[citation needed]

Notes

1. Ngoh 92.
2. Ngoh 92–3.
3. Nde.
4. Ngoh 115.
5. "Nekes, Hermann Fr. Prof. Dr. (1875-1948)". German Missionaries in Australia. Griffith University. 28 October 1948. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
6. Great Britain. Foreign Office (1895). Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Annual Series. p. 15-PA11. Retrieved 22 September 2024.

References

• DeLancey, Mark W., and DeLancey, Mark Dike (2000): Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (3rd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
• Nde, Paul. "Ntsama, Charles Atangana". The Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Accessed 30 October 2006.
• Ngoh, Victor Julius (1996): History of Cameroon Since 1800. Limbe: Presbook.