Johannes Ittmann (26 January 1885 – 15 June 1963) was a German Protestant missionary in Cameroon between 1911 and 1940.
He was born in Groß-Umstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire and died in Gambach, Hesse, West Germany.[1] He worked with the Basel Mission[2] in Cameroon from 1911 to 1940.[1] He joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1934; this membership led to his forced retirement by the Basil Mission, who disagreed with their politics.[3]
He did extensive ethnological and anthropological work in the Southwest Province, an English-speaking part of Cameroon, and published some 1,000 pages about it.[4][5] His best-known work is his dictionary about the Duala language.
Publications
edit- Grammatik des Duala, Kamerun (Grammar of Duala, with Carl Meinhof) (1939)[6]
- Sprichwörter der Kundu: (Kamerun): 75 (Veröffentlichung / Deutsche Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Institut Für Orientforschung) (Proverbs of the Kundu)
Family
editIttmann married Hanny Weygandt on August 4, 1914.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b Brill website, Ittmann, Johannes
- ^ University of Southern Carolina, Digital Library section, Ittmann, Johannes
- ^ Wurttembergische Kirchengeschichte website, Basler Mission Deutscher Zweig, article dated May 16, 2019
- ^ "Ittmann%2C%20Johannes." Stanford University website, Library section, Ittmann, Johannes
- ^ World Cat website, Esquisse de la Langue de L’association culterelle des nymphes au bord du Mon-Cameroun
- ^ Amazon Books, Johannes Ittmann, retrieved 2024-03-05
- ^ Johannes Ittmann website, Johannes Ittmann
External links
edit- Andreas-Martin Selignow (2000). "Johannes Ittmann". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 17. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 686–688. ISBN 3-88309-080-8.
- Johannes Ittmann website - unpublished manuscripts and free literature
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