Johann Friedrich Riedel

Johann Friedrich Riedel
A relief of Riedel from a Tondano church
Personal life
Born(1798-06-08)8 June 1798
Erfurt, Holy Roman Empire
Died12 October 1860(1860-10-12) (aged 62)
Tondano, Dutch East Indies
Religious life
DenominationProtestant
InstituteNetherlands Missionary Society

Johann Friedrich Riedel (8 June 1798 – 12 October 1860) was a German Protestant missionary best known for his evangelism efforts to the Minahasa people of Indonesia in the nineteenth century. He was primarily active in the town of Tondano between 1831 and his death in 1860. Throughout his career, he baptised over 9,000 people. Riedel and fellow missionary Johann Gottlieb Schwarz are celebrated by the Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa as the pioneers of Christianity in the region.

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