| LC control no. | nb2011018832 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Spieth, Jakob, 1856-1914 |
| Associated country | Germany Ghana |
| Associated place | Togo |
| Birth date | 1856 |
| Death date | 1914 |
| Place of death | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Ewe (African people) Ewe language |
| Affiliation | Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries Translators |
| Found in | Les communautés ewe, 2009: t.p. (Jakob Spieth) p. 1 (born 1856, Hegelsberg) p. 6 (died 1914) Internet Library, Sub-Saharan Africa (blog), Bergenthum, Hartmut. On display: translations as examples of German-African cultural cooperation to preserve the cultural heritage of the Ewe people in present-day Togo and Ghana, posted September 8, 2011, viewed March 25, 2024 (Jakob Spieth (1856-1914), German missionary, lived for more than 20 years in Ho, in the former German colony of Togo, now part of modern Ghana; his magnum opus, Die Ewe-Stämme: Material zur Kunde des Ewe-Volkes in Deutsch-Togo (1906) has recently been translated into English, and was translated into French in 2009; Spieth also translated the Bible into the language of the Ewe people) Dictionary of African Christian Biography (online), viewed March 25, 2024 (Spieth, Jakob, 1856-1914; Basel Mission, Togo, Ghana; he entered the Basel Mission seminary in Switzerland in 1874; the Norddeutsche Missions-Gesellschaft, based in Bremen, asked the Basel Mission for help in Togo, and Spieth agreed to go, arriving at Ho (now in Ghana), his mission base, in 1880; during 21 years in Togo, he acquired an excellent knowledge of the language and culture of the Ewe-speaking peoples, translating the New Testament; forced by health issues to return to Germany in 1901, living in Tubïngen, where he prepared Die Ewestämme... (published 1906) with the help of Africanists Carl Meinhof and Diedrich Westermann; awarded an honorary D.D. by the University of Tübingen in 1911; in 1904, aided by Ludwig Adzaklo, he started translating the Old Testament into Ewe, returning to Africa in 1909 to conclude this with help of a translation committee in Lome; he spent his last years directing the mission house in Hamburg and preparing publication of the Ewe Bible; died in Hamburg in 1914) |
| Associated language | ger ewe |
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