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Historical figure In September 1894 the Immanuel Synod bought the dilapidated Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg (later Ntaria) and appointed Strehlow to head the mission to the Western Aranda and Loritja (Kukatja) of Central Australia. He took charge on 12 October. Except for his travels among the Aborigines as far as Alice Springs, Strehlow left Hermannsburg only four times during his twenty-eight years of service. He went to South Australia where he married his German fiancée Frieda Johanna Henrietta Keysser at Point Pass on 25 September 1895. They returned to the financially troubled mission and continued working, their meagre salary subsidized by the Strehlow family in Germany. In 1903-04 Strehlow, with his wife and their four children, spent leave in Adelaide. After two more sons were born, the family visited Germany in 1910-12. Although Strehlow had been naturalized shortly after arriving in Australia, he was investigated by the Federal government during World War I for allegedly 'lecturing to aborigines regarding the present crisis on the European Continent'. He was exonerated. |