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J. G. Spalburg

Died in 1917

Johan George Spalburg was born on 20 July 1866 in Paramaribo. A schoolteacher in the service of the Moravian Community and a pupil of the musician Johannes Nicolaas Helstone, he directed a music society in the city in 1892. After a few months on the upper Cottica, he left in 1896 for the Aukaners of Drietabbetje, on the Tapanahony, to open a school there; poorly received, he left after four years, leaving behind a journal published in 1979. Appointed next to Albina, he wrote on the mission and the history of his Church. He died in Paramaribo on 5 December 1917.

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