This book is the revised and enlarged second edition of a biography of the missionary and linguist Johannes Rebmann (1820-1876), a Christian from Germany who worked in 19th-century East Africa.
From its base in London the CMS sent him to the Muslim-ruled and slavery-ridden Mombasa area of present-.
He was trained to be a missionary in Basel, Switzerland, for the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS).
Rebmann was deeply influenced by the Movement of Pietism in his homeland Württemberg.
This book is the revised and enlarged second edition of a biography of the missionary and linguist Johannes Rebmann (1820-1876), a Christian from Germany who worked in 19th-century East Africa