On the father:--------Georg Adam Heidenreich was born in Tiefenort in Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany on 29 September, 1828. He attended the Hermannsburg Institute Seminary between the years 1861-1866 and was ordained in 1866. He was one of the first four missionaries to come to Australia in 1866 along with fellow pastors J.F Goessling, C.G. Hellmuth and E. Homann.
ADD: (The Heidenreich story - the expulsion referred to in the text - is explored in detail in Hermannsburg: A Vision and a Mission, pp 21 -22)
For a full account of Heidenreich's role with the Finke River Mission, see
See Pastor E. W. Fischer, ‘Hermannsburg-Heidenreich: A Century in Australia, 1866-1966’, in Lutheran Almanac 1966, Lutheran Book Depot, North Adelaide, 1966, pp 23-28
