Heinrich Vieter

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Heinrich Vieter was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun. 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.^[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]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Ngoh 92.
2. ^ Ngoh 92–3.
3. ^ Nde.
4. ^ Ngoh 115.

[edit] 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.