About Johannes Ittmann
Lived 1885 – 1963 (aged 78). Johannes Ittmann was a German missionary and protestant theologian.
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. He worked with the Basel Mission in Cameroon from 1911 to 1940.
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. His best-known work is his dictionary about the Duala language.
Publications Grammatik des Duala, Kamerun (Grammar of Duala, with Carl Meinhof) (1939) 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.
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German missionary (1885-1963)
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Johannes Ittmann was born on 26 January 1885 in Groß-Umstadt.
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Johannes Ittmann died on 15 June 1963 in Münzenberg.
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Johannes Ittmann was a missionary and protestant theologian.
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Johannes Ittmann was German.
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