The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, revised and corrected from copies of the Sinaitic, Vatican, Alexandrian, and other old copies of the original Greek, with an apology for bible truths and exposition of men's dogmas.

Richter, John [Johann] August

Published by Bain & Co, Invercargill, 1877

About this Item

98, [4], [242] pages. Old bookplate on front endpaper, pencil notes on front endpaper. Originally published in wrappers, this copy is in a later hardcover binding. Starts with the introduction. The title page is after p. 98. Apparently the southernmost printing of any part of the bible. Johann August Richter (1814-93), born at Luppa, Germany, arrived in Sydney in 1844. On 29 July 1843 Richter obtained permission from the Saxon authorities to travel to Australia as a ?Hilfsmissionar? or auxiliary missionary. He and his family arrived in Sydney with a Gossner Mission Society party to Christianise and civilise Aborigines. The Gossner Mission Society had been established in Berlin in 1836 by Pastor Gossner. Richter?s group, which included Wilhelm Gehricke, Carl Gerler and Johann Hermann, remained in Sydney for several months while they debated whether to move to the Gossner German Mission Station established in 1838 at Zion?s Hill at Moreton Bay, or travel to New Caledonia. They finally decided to settle at Moreton Bay and establish a second station at Humpybong, although the number of Aborigines in the Moreton Bay area had by then rapidly declined and only 200 of the original 700 remained. Richter?s group arrived at Humpy Bong in about June 1844, but soon decided to leave, following a frightening encounter with some of the Aborigines there. The family returned to Sydney. Soon after Richter leased and worked a windmill owned by Thomas Holt. On 3 March 1845, he purchased the Collingwood Steam Flour Mill Richter?s Collingwood Mill stood adjacent to Thomas Holt?s home Sophienberg. Both Holt, a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, and Richter were friends of Ludwig Leichhardt the German explorer, who was godfather to Holt?s son Frederick, born in 1846. Leichhardt, like Richter, had Wendish origins, born in Lower Lusatia to a Wendish mother, Sophie Straelow. In 1847, Leichhardt was a guest of the Richter family for over a week. Leichhardt later disappeared without trace in 1848 during his second attempt to cross the Australian continent from east to west. In 1854 Richter and his eldest son Ernst travelled on foot to the Victorian goldfields, where they stayed several months. In early 1863, after news of the discovery of gold at Dunstan and Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown reached Sydney, Richter moved the family to New Zealand. Maria Richter died at Waikiwi on 24 January 1888 aged 74. Richter died at Waikiwi on 16 October 1893 aged 79. Rare! Wordlcat lists only 6 copies, 3 in New Zealand, 2 in Australia, one in the Netherlands.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, revised and corrected from copies of the Sinaitic, Vatican, Alexandrian, and other old copies of the original Greek, with an apology for bible truths and exposition of men's dogmas.
• Publisher: Bain & Co, Invercargill
• Publication Date: 1877
• Language: English
• Binding: Blue Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
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