Fr Johannes J. Tschauder SVD was ordained in 1936 and joined the Divine Word Mission in New Guinea in December 1937. He was parish priest on Karkar island from 1938 until 1943 when he was captured by the Japanese. He worked in parishes in Australia from 1944 until 1949 and then in Ulingan on the Madang coast from 1949 until 1955. Fr Tschauder took sick leave in Europe from 1955 until 1958 and then returned to New Guinea as parish priest at Tabele on Manam Island. He taught at Holy Spirit Seminary, both when it was in Madang and at Bomana, from 1963 until his retirement in 1977. In retirement at the Madang Archdiocesan headquarters, Fr Tschauder undertook translation work and built a collection of German materials from PNG settlement, together with first draft translations into English. These papers have now been incorporated in the archival holdings at the Noser Library at the Divine Word University.

Papers written by Fr John J. Tschauder; diaries and notebooks of Fr Tschauder, 1937-46; correspondence of Fr Tschauder, 1937-1954; personal papers and manuscripts collected by Fr Tschauder (including Fr. Appollinaris Anova-Ataba, Fr. Cornelius van Barr, Br. David Brummer, Br. Willie Cherubim Kaufmann, Fr Heinrich Luttmer, Fr. J. Nilles, Fr. James Noss, Fr. Alphons Schaefer, Fr. Stefanski, Sr. Vinciana, Eugene Weber, Fr. Francis Winzenhärlein); subject files on the SVD Mission in New Guinea and Christianity in the Pacific to 1990; files on colonial administrations in New Guinea, 1880-1982; papers on the Divine Word (SVD) Mission in New Guinea, 1994-96; papers on the Madang and Sepik regions, 1913-88; translations from German to English of anthroplogical works on New Guineans; translations from German official publications of reports, articles and notes on New Guinea, 1895-1915. See Finding aids for details.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>