Johannes Ittmann

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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.

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.

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External links

Andreas-Martin Selignow (2000). "Johannes Ittmann". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 17. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 686–688. ISBN 3-88309-080-8.
unpublished manuscripts and free literature

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Missions timeline	Christianity in Africa

People	William Anderson Frederick Stanley Arnot John Arthur Samuel Bill Joseph Booth Daniel Coker Daniel Kumler Flickinger George Grenfell Carl Hugo Hahn Joseph Hardcastle Joseph Crane Hartzell Johannes Ittmann Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt Johann Ludwig Krapf Margaret Nicholl Laird Christian Ignatius Latrobe David Livingstone Mary Livingstone (née Moffat) Alexander Murdoch Mackay Joseph Merrick Robert Moffat Andrew Murray Helen Roseveare Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder John Philip Martti Rautanen Alfred Saker Heinrich Schmelen William Henry Sheppard Mary Slessor John McKendree Springer Charles Studd William Taylor Gottlieb Viehe

Missionary agencies	American Board Africa Inland Mission Berlin Missionary Society BMS World Mission Congo-Balolo Mission Christian and Missionary Alliance Church Mission Society Finnish Missionary Society Heart of Africa Mission Livingstone Inland Mission London Missionary Society Mission Africa Mission to the World Paris Evangelical Missionary Society Rhenish Missionary Society USPG WEC International

Pivotal events	Slave Trade Act 1807 Slavery Abolition Act 1833

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 52059678 LCCN: n81005255 ISNI: 0000 0001 1570 4762

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Name	Ittmann, Johannes
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Short description	German missionary
Date of birth	26 January 1885
Place of birth
Date of death	15 June 1963
Place of death

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