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. Brill website, Ittmann, Johannes He worked with the Basel MissionUniversity of Southern Carolina, Digital Library section, Ittmann, Johannes in Cameroon from 1911 to 1940. 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. Wurttembergische Kirchengeschichte website, Basler Mission Deutscher Zweig, article dated May 16, 2019
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."Ittmann%2C%20Johannes." Stanford University website, Library section, Ittmann, JohannesWorld Cat website, Esquisse de la Langue de L’association culterelle des nymphes au bord du Mon-Cameroun His best-known work is his dictionary about the Duala language.
Publications Grammatik des Duala, Kamerun (Grammar of Duala, with Carl Meinhof) (1939)Amazon Books, Johannes Ittmann, retrieved 2024-03-05 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.Johannes Ittmann website, Johannes Ittmann
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Johannes Ittmann website - unpublished manuscripts and free literature