Johannes Ittmann (26 January 1885 – 15 June 1963) was a German

Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

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Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

between 1911 and 1940. He was born in

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and died in Gambach,

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. He did extensive ethnological and

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work in the

Southwest Province The Southwest Region or South-West Region () is a region in Cameroon. Its capital is Buea. , its population was 1,553,320. Along with the Northwest Region, it is one of the two Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon. Various Ambazonia ...

, an

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-speaking part of Cameroon, and published some 1,000 pages about it. His best-known work is his dictionary about the

Duala language Duala (''ɓwambo ba duālā in douala)'' (also spelt Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla and Dwala) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Douala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. ...

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1885 births 1963 deaths People from Groß-Umstadt German Protestant missionaries People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse Protestant missionaries in Cameroon German expatriates in Cameroon {{Germany-reli-bio-stub