Multilingual working and reading versions of the "Genadendal Diaries" from the Utrecht Archives

The Genadendal Diaries describe the development of the town of Baviaanskloof/Genadendal (South Africa) from 1792 onwards. They are available in a wide variety of versions and translations.

The excerpts and translations presented here originate from the archives of the Moravian Church in Zeist and are now held in the Utrecht Archives.

Following automatic transcription, normalization, and translation (German, English and Afrikaans) by the Moravian Knowledge Network Team in Dresden, the diaries will be made available and further processed to ultimately provide a complete corpus for further research. The transcription always serves as the reference; normalization and translation are only to be understood as guidance in this working version.

Brief description of content

• NL-UtHUA_A363349 Various extracts and passages from the Genadendal Diaries between 1792 and 1797, translated from German into Dutch (reading version in original Dutch, normalized German, English and Afrikaans).
• NL-UtHUA_A363595 Extract of the Genadendal Diaries from 1792 to 1794, in German (reading version in original and normalized German, English and Afrikaans).
• NL-UtHUA_A363596 Extract of the Genadendal Diaries from 1795 to 1796, in German (reading version in original and normalized German, English and Afrikaans).
• NL-UtHUA_A363597 Extract of the Genadendal Diaries from 1803 to 1805 and report of the passing and funeral of Christian Ludwig Rose (1746-1805), in German (reading version in original and normalized German, English and Afrikaans).