See also: New Zealand Church Missionary Society.
| George Adam Kissling | |
| Birth Date: | 3 July 1805 |
| Birth Place: | Murr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Death Place: | Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Spouse: | Margaret Moxon (married 1837) |
| Occupation: | Missionary |
George Adam Kissling[1] (3 July 1805 – 9 November 1865)[2] was the second Archdeacon of Waitemata.[3]
Kissling was born in Murr, Baden-Württemberg, in Germany.[4] A Lutheran missionary who studied at the University of Basel, Kissling served with the German Mission Society in Liberia and Sierra Leone before ill-health led him to go to England.[5] He married Margaret Moxon on 3 July 1837 at Islington, London. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1841 and the following year emigrated to New Zealand.[6]
The Kisslings were sent by the Church Missionary Society to work at the Kawakawa (Hicks Bay) Mission from 1843 to 1846.[7] [8] [9] George Kissling's ill health resulted in a move to Auckland.[10]
George and Margaret Kissling opened a Māori girls boarding school in the Auckland suburb of Kohimarama. He taught students of theology at St John's College, including Riwai Te Ahu.[11] In 1859 he was appointed Archdeacon of Waitemata.
After some years of illness, Kissling died on 9 November 1865, aged 60.[12] [5]