Carl Wilhelm Schmidt

Schmidt and his fellow missionaries are memorialised at this monument in modern-day Nundah

Reverend Carl Wilhelm Schmidt (died 1864[1]), also known as Karl Schmidt, was a German missionary, and an ordained minister of the Prussian United Church.[2] Schmidt's missionary work took him to Queensland and Samoa, where he founded a number of Lutheran institutions and settlements.[3]

  1. ^ Gunson, Niel (1967). "Schmidt, Karl Wilhelm Edward". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Melbourne University Press.
  2. ^ Tampke, Jurgen (2007). The Germans in Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-521-61243-2.
  3. ^ Thiele, F. Otto (1939). One Hundred Years of the Lutheran Church in Queensland. Brisbane.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)