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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
- 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
Ittmann married Hanny Weygandt on August 4, 1914.
[7]
References
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Brill website, Ittmann, Johannes
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University of Southern Carolina, Digital Library section, Ittmann, Johannes
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Wurttembergische Kirchengeschichte website, Basler Mission Deutscher Zweig, article dated May 16, 2019
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"Ittmann%2C%20Johannes." Stanford University website, Library section, Ittmann, Johannes
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World Cat website, Esquisse de la Langue de L’association culterelle des nymphes au bord du Mon-Cameroun
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Amazon Books, Johannes Ittmann, retrieved 2024-03-05
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Johannes Ittmann website, Johannes Ittmann
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