Heinrich Vieter, SAC (13 February 1853, Selm – 7 November 1914, Jaunde) was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun (today Cameroon).
Missionary work Heinrich Vieter arrived in Douala with seven other members of the mission on 25 October 1890.Ngoh 92. Over the next 13 years, Vieter led the Pallottines as they opened missions and schools across the territory.Ngoh 92–3.
He befriended the young Ntsama Atangana at the mission school in Kribi; Atangana would later gift the Pallottines with land in Jaunde (Yaoundé) in Kamerun.Nde.
When a Bulu leader Martin-Paul Samba was sentenced to death for treason against Germany in 1914, Vieter appealed for a stay, but his requests were ignored.Ngoh 115.
Teaching Vieter taught at the (SOS; usually known in English as the Oriental Seminary) in Berlin sometime between 1909 and 1915, along with .
Beatification A process of beatification of Vieter was initiated by the Archbishop of Jaunde in early 2005, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Cameroon.
Notes
References DeLancey, Mark W., and DeLancey, Mark Dike (2000): Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (3rd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. Nde, Paul. "Ntsama, Charles Atangana". The Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Accessed 30 October 2006. Ngoh, Victor Julius (1996): History of Cameroon Since 1800. Limbe: Presbook.