| LC control no. | n 50037116 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jahn, Janheinz |
| Variant(s) | Jahn, J. (Janheinz) |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Birth date | 1918 |
| Death date | 1973 |
| Place of birth | Germany |
| Place of death | Germany |
| Field of activity | African literature--History and criticism |
| Affiliation | University of Texas |
| Profession or occupation | Translators Historians Scholars Authors |
| Found in | Muntu, 1958. Contemporary authors on Infotrac, Apr. 25, 2007 (Janheinz Jahn; b. July 23, 1918, Frankfurt, Germany, d. 1973, Messel, West Germany; educator, translator, and author) Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (1918-1973) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed February 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Jahn, Janheinz; translator, historian, literary scholar; born 1918 in Germany; studied history of arts and the Arabic language (1930s); soldier during World War II; worked as a freelance writer and journalist; made his living from publishing books; gave public lectures on African literature; initiated correspondence with African writers in order to collect African poetry; edited his first anthology of African literature, Schwarzer Orpheus (Black Orpheus) (1954); published more than twenty volumes of poetry and short stories of contemporary African authors; translated more than a dozen books of African writers; wrote books on African literature and the arts in general; published Muntu: An Outline of Neo-African Culture (1958); published a bibliography of African literature that contained the works of over 1,400 authors (1965); was a visiting professor at the University of Texas (Austin) (1972); died in 1973 in Germany) Muntu : las culturas neoafricanas, 1963: spine title (J. Jahn) |
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