Jean Pierre Pellissier

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Jean Pierre Pellissier (28 September 1808, St. Arey, France – 11 June 1867, Bethulie, South Africa) was a missionary from the Paris Mission Society to Southern Africa. He arrived in Cape Town on 5 September 1831, where he stayed at Wamakersvallei (Wellington) for two months, to learn Dutch, and from where he departed to Kuruman to do mission work among the Tswana people (Zeerust). Local infighting between rival tribes caused him to move to the area north of the Orange River in 1833, to a site where the London Mission Society had an unsuccessful attempt to start a mission station among the Khoi people. He later named the mission station Bethulie (meaning Eloah – house of God). The land of the mission station was transferred to the Paris Mission Society in 1836. Besides his mission work, Pellissier made a great contribution towards practical education and medicine among the local people. This resulted into one of the best-developed mission stations in southern Africa beyond the Orange River for that period. In 1861 he was officially acknowledged as a medical practitioner by the local government of the Orange Free State.

Sources

Elsevier, Amsterdam. (1976) Ensiklopedie van die Wereld part 8; C.F. Albertyn (Edms) Bpk, Stellenbosch. ISBN 0-949948-22-5
Pellissier, S.H. (1956) Jean Pierre Pellissier van Bethulie; J.L. van Schaik, Bpk, Pretoria.

Persondata
Name	Pellissier, Jean Pierre
Alternative names
Short description	French missionary
Date of birth	1808
Place of birth	St. Arey, France
Date of death	1867
Place of death	Bethulie, South Africa

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