Maria Hartmann

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

Hartmann was married to the missionary Johann Gottlieb Hartmann, and travelled with him to Suriname in 1826; the couple lived and worked in Paramaribo and Charlottenburg. They had five children, including Maria Heyde; another of their children followed in his parents' footsteps, continuing to work in Suriname. Johann died in 1844, but Maria continued her service, working with the black population of Berg en Dal and New Bombay and traveling into the bush country to teach the freed blacks. Among her activities was teaching younger missionaries. Her accomplishments included the foundation of a church in Koffiekamp. She suffered from elephantiasis, but continued to work until dying; upon her death a number of articles were written praising her example.