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Johan (or Johann) Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers (1811–1885) was a missionary from Germany who went to New Zealand, initially to Nelson and then to the Southland settlement of Ruapuke on Foveaux Strait. Born in North Germany, he went to a mission school, and was then sent by the Protestant evangelical North German Mission Society to New Zealand, where the New Zealand Company was establishing new settlements. He left Germany on an emigrant ship the ''St Pauli'' in 1842, going first to Nelson where there were a number of German settlers. He went south on the ship Deborah in 1844, and was invited by the great Kai Tahu chief Tuhawaiki to make his headquarters on Ruapuke Island. The Māori settlement there was decaying; Wohlers and his wife struggled against dispiritedness as well as diseases like influenza and tuberculosis, although his host Tuhawaiki was drowned in 1844. On Foveaux Strait fishing and farming was replacing whaling. Basil Howard described Wohlers as ''a quiet comforting figure about Foveau Strait.'' == Eliza Wohlers and family== Johan was born in the North German hamlet of Mahlensdorf near Bremen to Johann Gerd Wohlers and his wife Margarethe née Ahlers. He married Eliza Hanham in Wellington in 1849, and they had one daughter Gretchen. Eliza later remarried, to Richard Palmer. ==External links== * from the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'' ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johan Wohlers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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