List of materials

German transcriptions and Finnish translations are available of the following diaries (originals in Martti Rautanen collection, Finnish National Archives):

1870-1872
1879-1880
1879-1882
1885
1885-1886
1897-1900
1906-1912
1919-1925

Diaries that have not yet been transcribed and translated:
1868-1869 and 1869-1870 (see Simo Heininen ed. Matka Afrikkaan : Martti Rautasen päiväkirja 1868-1870. Helsinki: Suomen kirkkohistoriallinen seura, 2021)
1912-1919

The diaries from years 1886-1897 that are part of the collection of the Finnish Missionary Society (Finnish National Archives).

Image: Martti Rautanen, photograph by Hannu Haahti (1911). Finnish Heritage Agency, Picture Collections, photographs of the Finnish Missionary Society.