Schön, James Frederick, 1803-1889

LC control no.	no2004067728
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Schön, James Frederick, 1803-1889 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Schön, J. F. (James Frederick), 1803-1889 Schön, Jacob Friedrich, 1803-1889
Associated country	England
Associated place	Sierra Leone Nigeria
Birth date	1803
Death date	1889-03-30
Place of death	Chatham (Kent, England)
Field of activity	Hausa language Hausa literature Hausa (African people)
Affiliation	Church Missionary Society Melville Hospital (Chatham, Kent, England)
Profession or occupation	Missionaries Clergy Linguists Translators
Found in	La-yia yēkpẹ̄ nanīsia ... 1872: bookplate (James Frederick Schön, translator) Magána Hausa, 1970: t.p. (Jacob Friedrich Schön) orig t.p. (J.F. Schön) Lēta̳fin Musa nāfa̳ri, 1858: title page (translated from the original into Hausa by the Rev. James Frederick Schön, chaplain of Melville Hospital, Chatham, member of the German Oriental Society, and late church missionary at Sierra Leone) OCLC, July 16, 2004: (hdg.: Schön, James Frederick, 1803-1889; usage: James Frederick Schön, J.F. Schön) The folktale in Nigeria, 2014: pages 361-362 (J. F. Schon; member of the 1841 Niger expedition under the umbrella of the Church Missionary Society; active with missionaries among Hausa people in Sierra Leone; visited Lokoja and Bida [Nigeria]; did book on Hausa literature, Magana Hausa, with the help of Dorugu, a young Hausa speaker who had traveled with the explorer Barth, and whose narratives are also included) Wikipedia, May 14, 2018 (James Schön; born 1802, Ober Weiler; died 30 March 1889, Chatham; German missionary and linguist; attended Basel Seminary, then Church Missionary Society College in London; qualified as a priest in 1832, went to Sierra Leone; active with the Church Missionary Society until 1853; expert on the Hausa language; honorary doctorate from Oxford University, 1884)
Associated language	eng hau