Maria Hartmann

Maria (sometimes Marie) Lobach Hartmann (11 December 1798 – 30 December 1853 ) was a German-born Moravian missionary in Suriname.

Maria Lobach (Sorbian: Marija Lobakojc) was born to a Sorbian family in Turnow, Lower Lusatia. She married the missionary Johann Gottlieb Hartmann, and travelled with him to Suriname in 1826; the couple lived and worked in Paramaribo and Charlottenburg, Wanhatti. They had five children, including Maria Heyde; another of their children followed in his parents' footsteps, continuing to work in Suriname. and traveling into the bush country to teach the freed blacks. 1851 was the darkest year, everybody, except for Hartmann, died of yellow fever, and Hartmann left Bambey, and moved to the forest. in 1851. The church was built in 1853, Koffiekamp was flooded after the construction of the Afobaka Dam. The villagers were resettled in Nieuw-Koffiekamp, Marshallkreek and Tapoeripa.