Rev. Johannes Julius August Prozesky, SV/PROG1

Johannes Julius August Prozesky was a missionary of the Berlin Missionary Society.

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The Life, Work and Influence of JOHANNES JULIUS AUGUST PROZESKY (1840-1915), Missionary of the Berlin Missionary Society in South Africa Thesis submitted by OSKAR EDUARD PROZESKY in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1995 (search on the internet: prozesky's medical mission - ResearchSpace@UKZNhttps://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za › bitstream › handle, to access the pdf file)

The origins of the Prozesky family are obscure. The records of the Lutheran church in the market town of Brandenburg in the district of Heiligenbeil, East Prussia, when they still existed, traced the family back only as far as 1730. The tailor Johann Prozetzke whose marriage was recorded at that date was not a native of East Prussia but had apparently come from Poland [from historical poin of view, East Prussia was part of Poland too, MK] as a fugitive from religious or political persecution of some sort. His son, grandson and great-grandson were all craftsmen in Brandenburg: a master tailor, a carpenter and a master shoemaker respectively. His great-great-grandson Johannes Julius August Prozesky was born in Konigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, on 18th July 1840, the first child of the master shoemaker Johann Gottfried Prozeski (1806-1880) and Anna Maria Prozeska, born Bohm, (1812-1876). August's parents were devout church-goers whose home, as he described it, was "governed by the spirit of prayer ". They had three further children, Johanna Caroline (1843-1855), Johann Carl (1846-1927) and Johann Friedrich (1850-1895). Although Gottfried spent his best years at the shoemaker's last, he and his wife ran an infant school in later life, from 1856 to 1876. Source: Oskar Eduard Prozesky, The life, work and influence of Johannes Julius August Prozesky (1840-1915), missionary of the Berlin Missionary Society in South Africa, 1995,