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KLOSE, Samuel Gottlieb M Adelaide 180/234 1889
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See http://www.lmw-mission.de/d/wir/pdf/Lockwood_A-Vision-Frustrated.pdf
He went to South Australia as a Lutheran Evangelical Missionary from Dresden, Germany in 1840.

Klose took over a school for Kaurna children at Piltawodli in 1840. Early in 1846 Klose's employment and government support for the Dresden missionaries were terminated. Klose began ministering to Germans and English in Adelaide. Klose an Anglican (1844).

From the Wendish Heritage Society Australia.
'Missionary to the Kaurna: the Klose letters.'
This fascinating book contains some of the letters of the earliest German Lutheran missionaries to come to South Australia. It is published by Friends of Lutheran Archives.
Samuel Gottlieb Klose, born 1802 in Loewenberg, Silesia, was an early German Lutheran missionary
sent to work among the Aboriginal people in S.A.
Klose reported regularly to his senders, the Dresden Missionary Society. Letters covering the first 5 years of his service in and around Adelaide, written in old gothic script but now translated into English, reveal the amazing faith and courage he and his colleagues displayed in reaching out to the Kaurna people with the Good News of Jesus our Saviour.
His earliest letters tell of his call to S.A., the obstacles he had to deal with to reach our shores and begin his work, and how he coped at the very beginning of white settlement in this foreign land. An amazing story of dedication and caring, the more so when you remember that he and his fellow missionaries were Germans struggling to master English and at the same time befriending the local native people and learning to speak their language.

Naturalization of German Lutheran Missionaries.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY HIS EXCELLENY THE GOVERNOR
of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof: That
Heinrich August Edward Meyer
Samuel Gottlieb Klose
Christian Gottlieb Teichelmanu
Clamor Wilhelm Schurmann
be and they are hereby naturalized and enabled to purchase and hold lands and to enjoy all other the privileges of natural born British subjects.

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